Hormel Foods PE ratio HRL

Share price divided by earnings per share over the last twelve months, since 2011.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 33.4×
10-year median: 23.4×
Against its 10-year history: 99th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 15.8× to 34.2×
Peer median: 15.6×

Hormel Foods' PE ratio is 33.4× as of Oct 23, 2026: a share price of $21.06 against $0.63 of earnings per share over the last twelve months.

That is above its ten-year median of 23.4×, higher than on 99% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 15.8× in Oct 2025 to 34.2× in Aug 2026.

The median for 10 packaged Foods stocks of a similar size is 15.6×.

PE ratio over time

median 23.4×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	33.4×	22.2×	34.2×
2025	27.9×	15.8×	28.0×
2024	21.8×	19.9×	24.9×
2023	22.0×	19.5×	25.6×
2022	24.9×	24.3×	31.7×
2021	29.4×	25.8×	30.3×
2020	27.9×	23.1×	30.8×
2019	25.1×	22.2×	25.6×
2018	22.7×	19.1×	25.5×
2017	23.0×	18.8×	23.2×
2016	21.2×	21.2×	33.8×
2015	31.1×	23.0×	31.4×
2014	23.8×	21.5×	25.0×
2013	23.1×	18.5×	24.8×
2012	16.5×	16.0×	18.0×
2011	16.8×	15.3×	17.7×

Against its peers

Companies in Packaged Foods nearest Hormel Foods' size, closest first, today.

Company	PE ratio
HRLHormel Foods	33.4×
MKCMccormick	8.7×
SJMJ M SMUCKER	61.0×
LWLamb Weston	29.3×
SFDSmithfield Foods	7.0×
CPBCAMPBELL'S	15.7×
INGRIngredion	10.4×
KHCKraft Heinz	n/m
POSTPost	14.9×
FRPTFreshpet	17.1×
MZTIMarzetti	15.6×
Peer median	15.6×

Where Hormel Foods ranks

What the PE ratio tells you

Share price divided by earnings per share over the last twelve months. It is the price tag on a dollar of profit: 20× means you pay $20 for $1 of yearly earnings.

Blank while earnings are negative. A very low PE can mean the market expects profits to fall, so read it with growth and the company's own history.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.