Hormel Foods Corp (NYSE:HRL) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 1.31% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $31.68.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $31.27, falling within a range of $30.985 and $31.75. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.336 whereas the PE ratio is 23.30 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $33.80, and the low was $27.59. On the whole, HRL has fluctuated by 1.57% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Hormel Foods Corp currently standing at about $17.42 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-29. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.14, with its dividend yield at 3.61%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 12.11B, with a low estimate of 2.97B and a high estimate of 3.01B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 2.98B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that HRL’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.68, with the price of HRL currently trading nearly 3.52% and 4.83% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 64.01, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.73% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.68%. Furthermore, Hormel Foods Corp (HRL)’s beta value is 0.31.
A comparison of Hormel Foods Corp (HRL) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. HRL showed an intraday change of 1.31% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 0.99%%.
Data on historical trading for Hormel Foods Corp (NYSE:HRL) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 3.09 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 3.02 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 549.89 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 47.26% of Hormel Foods Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 42.98% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 12.86 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 4.01. According to the data, the short interest in Hormel Foods Corp (HRL) stood at 440.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 10.76 million. The stock has risen by 5.08% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the HRL stock heading into the next quarter.
