Should You Sell Hormel Foods Corp. (HRL) And Go Away This Year?

Hormel Foods Corp. (NYSE:HRL) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.24M but it saw 1311137 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 17.10B USD, the company’s current market price of $31.19 came rising about 0.32 while comparing to the previous closing price of $31.09. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $36.86 and as low as $28.51. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $30.89 while lowest mark touched by it was $31.27.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Exane BNP Paribas which initiated the stock as “Underperform” in its note to investors issued on October 21, 2024, recommending a price target of $28 for it. Citigroup issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $33 and $37.

Over the week, HRL’s stock price is moving -0.13% down while it is 0.06% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -2.87% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 0.74%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 0.42 beaten by the consensus estimate of 0.44 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in November, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.43 while estimate for next year EPS is 1.58. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $3.05B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $11.95B and seeing the company making $12.25B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $3.15B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Hormel Foods Corp.’s total number of outstanding shares is 546.60M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 7.28% and return on equity (ROE) at 10.02%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 21.91 while having a 18.47 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.25. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.17 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.43. Its return on asset (ROA) is 5.88% on average.