Hormel Foods
Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL) develops, processes, markets, and distributes branded meat, nut, and other food products to retail and foodservice customers in the United States and internationally. Its Retail segment serves grocery, mass merchandise, club, natural-food, drug, discount, and e-commerce channels… From the company’s description.
In fiscal 2025, Hormel Foods reported revenue of $12.11B, up 1.6% from fiscal 2024, and net income of $477.76M. Its operating margin was 5.9%, and operations generated $845.25M in cash. Over the twelve months to Jul 26, 2026, revenue was $12.15B.
Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.
What Hormel Foods does
In the company’s own words
Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL) develops, processes, markets, and distributes branded meat, nut, and other food products to retail and foodservice customers in the United States and internationally. Its Retail segment serves grocery, mass merchandise, club, natural-food, drug, discount, and e-commerce channels and includes its MegaMex Foods joint venture; Foodservice sells to distributors and operators serving restaurants, hospitality, healthcare, schools, universities, and convenience stores; and International serves retail and foodservice markets abroad, including through joint ventures, investments, and royalty arrangements. The company’s brands include SPAM, Planters, Jennie-O, Skippy, Applegate, Wholly, Hormel Black Label, and Fontanini. Founded in 1891 as a meat and food processor, Hormel has expanded through organic growth and acquisitions into a global branded food company. It sells products in all 50 U.S. states and operates in international markets including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines. Hormel had approximately 20,000 active employees as of October 26, 2025, and annual revenue exceeding $12 billion. Its website is hormelfoods.com.
Company details
- Sector
- Consumer Staples
- Industry (SIC)
- Food Products
- Headquarters
- AUSTIN, MN
- Fiscal year end
- October
- CIK
- 48465
- SIC
- 2011
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Hormel Foods — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Hormel Foods · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · Hormel Foods’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Hormel Foods’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 4 issues of Hormel Foods’s debt, $207.67M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 2.28%, maturing 2027 to 2051.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
All filings →Each filing opens into its own statements and disclosures here.
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