How is Hormel Foods (HRL) doing?

Hormel Foods is a company in the packaged foods industry, based in Austin, MN, worth $10.6B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Weak

Hormel Foods shares are down 20% over the past year, 31 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Broken Year. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 17th percentile on market beat, the 1st on staying power and the 6th on business growth. It appears on 8 of our dashboards.

$19.19−20% in a yearWorth $10.6B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

HRL against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Hormel Foods −20%, the S&P 500 +16%.

HRLS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Broken Year

LaggingErraticSlowingSold

Lagging, erratic, a soft business, and sellers in charge.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Broken Year since Jun; Falling Knife before that.

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EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Staples / low-vol, 35 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Consumer staples and low-vol dividend payers — the bond proxy.

HRL, past year−20%23 of 35 in the group

Rest of the group−6%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Hormel Foods is −20% over the past year, against −6% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 23rd of 35 in Staples / low-vol.

HRLRest of the group

Best in the groupIRDM Iridium Communications+140%KO Coca-Cola+33%PM Philip Morris International+30%

Worst in the groupFLO Flowers Foods−54%CPB Campbell's−37%GIS General Mills−35%

Its closest rivalsTSN Tyson Foods+2%SFD Smithfield Foods−16%PPC Pilgrim's Pride−25%CAG Conagra Brands−28%KHC Kraft Heinz−11%

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How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Hormel Foods typically moves 2.3% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 78% of large US stocks.

Typical day2.3%about $0.44 a share

Its usual2.4%about usual, 1.0× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5002.2×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±4.6%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−28%now 28% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks54%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.1

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.39%

HRL on our dashboards

Every question where Hormel Foods appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with HRL highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Which stocks are setting new lows? Market health	18Bottom	27 of 33	1Y −20% · 3M −22% · Days at a low 4
What moved this week? What’s leading	83Unusual	55 of 60	This week −5.2% · × normal week 1.0× · 1M −8%
Which stocks trade below book value? Value	90Near book	47 of 60	P/B 1.38x · Return on equity +4% · Book value $7.8B
Which S&P 500 stocks pay the highest dividends? Dividends and buybacks	95Stretched	19 of 60	Yield 5.9% · Dividend growth, 5Y +5% a yr · Per share 1.17
Which dividends are safe? Dividends and buybacks	47Watch	37 of 80	Yield 5.9% · Paid out of earnings 95% · Reliable cash 57
Which companies raise their dividend every year? Dividends and buybacks	86Long run	56 of 60	Years raised 24 years · Growth, 5Y +5% a yr · Yield 5.9%
What are insiders buying? Who’s buying and selling	98Buying	6 of 60	Bought $201K · Who Director
Where is trading volume surging? Who’s buying and selling	93Heavy	35 of 60	vs normal 1.4x · Traded a day $136.1M · 5D −5.2%

Go deeper on Stox

HRL’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see HRL’s full profile on Stox.

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