Hormel Foods

HRL

Market cap $14B

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HRL's latest portfolio move underscores its push to streamline international operations and focus on markets with stronger long-term growth potential.

AUSTIN, Minn., June 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), a Fortune 500 global branded food company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Brazilian operations, operated under the CERATTI® brand to Zanchetta Alimentos LTDA, a Brazilian food company with an established presence in the market.

Hormel Foods has increased its dividend for a stunning 60 consecutive years. It's a vaunted Dividend Aristocrat more than twice over. Hormel has a very good financial position. Its long-term debt/equity ratio is 0.4, while the interest coverage ratio is around 10. The P/E ratio is sitting at 17.4, based on midpoint guidance for this year's adjusted EPS. That's about as low as I've seen it on this stock.

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Hormel Foods has been in a slow-motion bear hug. The stock sits 22.8% below its 52-week high, and the trailing GAAP payout ratio looks ugly after a $234 million non-cash impairment and a $61 million whole-bird turkey divestiture loss.