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HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/Evidence as of 2026-09-03Overview · HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/
Hormel Foods Corporation develops, processes, and distributes various meat, nuts, and food products to retail, foodservice, deli, and commercial customers in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Grocery Products, Refrigerated Foods, Jennie-O Turkey Store, and International & Other. It provides various perishable products that include fresh meats, frozen items, refrigerate…
Management team
- Ms. Lisa Selk · Senior Vice President of Brand FuelFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Swen Neufeldt · Group VP & President of Hormel Foods InternationalFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. James P. Snee · President, CEO & DirectorFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Katherine M. Losness-Larson · Senior Vice President of Human ResourcesFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
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−0.1 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
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Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The balance of evidence is Mixed ( -0.1 of a possible +2; confidence high). Hormel reported gross profit of $ 475,232,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-01-25), $ 518,507,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-04-26) and $ 471,515,000 in fiscal Q3 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-07-26).
Operating income and net income fell quarter-to-quarter, with operating income declining from $ 243,697,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 to $ 217,112,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 to $ 110,904,000 in fiscal Q3 2026, and net income moving from $ 181,801,000 to $ 157,474,000 to $ 59,573,000 over the same sequence. Diluted EPS tracked the drop, at $ 0.33, $ 0.29 and $ 0.11 respectively, while weighted average diluted shares rose modestly from 549,854,000 to 551,074,000 across the three quarters. The firm generated positive operating cash flow TTM of $ 1,266,029,000 and TTM free cash flow of $ 1,040,607,000 (FCF per share $ 1.8883); at a market price of 22.05 on 2026-09-02 the model shows P/FCF of 11.68 and an implied FCF growth rate of -3.5%.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Gross profit was $475,232,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2024-10-28 to 2025-01-26, 3mo), $518,507,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-01-26 to 2026-04-26, 3mo), and $471,515,000 in fiscal Q3 2026 (2026-04-27 to 2026-07-26, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0000048465-26-000020Operating income declined quarter-to-quarter from $243,697,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2024-10-28 to 2025-01-26, 3mo) to $217,112,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-01-26 to 2026-04-26, 3mo) to $110,904,000 in fiscal Q3 2026 (2026-04-27 to 2026-07-26, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0000048465-26-000020Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Nothing in this slice of the evidence rose to a claim — a quiet read, which itself is information.
Which filings the desk reads
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As of 2026-09-02, the IVV ETF held HORMEL FOODS CORP /DE/ (HRL) at 0.01% of the fund.
ETF constituents · market dataThis record documents HRL's membership in a broadly tracked S&P 500–linked ETF (IVV) as of 2026-09-02, representing a very small weighting (0.01% of the fund).
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Two outlets ran the same comparative headline about dividends between Hormel and General Mills on 2 September 2026, framing the story around dividend size and payout metrics rather than company-specific operational news.
News · 247wallst.com · 2026-09-02A press announcement dated 1 September 2026 states that Hormel executives will participate in the 2026 Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-01Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
At the market price 22.05 on 2026-09-02, the model shows the price-to-free-cash-flow (P/FCF) is 11.68 and free cash flow (FCF) trailing twelve months is $1,040,607,000 (FCF per share $1.8883).
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeThe model reports an implied FCF growth rate of -3.5% (the rate today's price would justify under the stated discount and terminal assumptions).
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Several pieces of evidence in the record jointly support a constructive read: Hormel shows robust trailing free cash flow ($1.04B TTM) with a reasonable P/FCF of 11.68 at the quoted market price, and operating cash flow TTM ($1.266B) indicates strong cash generation. Long-term noncurrent debt has meaningfully declined across the three balance-sheet snapshots, which, combined with positive FCF, strengthens the company’s financial flexibility. Market and institutional signals — a small S&P-linked ETF holding, a new modest stake reported in a 13F, and management participation in a major consumer-staples conference — are consistent with ongoing investor and analyst engagement. These factors provide contextual support against headline-driven weakness by evidencing real cash-generation capacity and balance-sheet improvement.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.35
20 surviving claims rest on 10 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 35% of them, and 100% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence set rests on a moderate number of distinct sources, which helps breadth, but a single analyst authored over a third of surviving claims and everything the desk flagged survived peer review — that raises the risk that unchallenged interpretations or common data-handling assumptions permeate the read. In short, the read has useful corroboration across filings, news and valuation models, but its resilience is reduced by analyst concentration and lack of internal pushback, so treat the conclusions as informative but relatively brittle to new primary records or a corrective filing.
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14 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
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Read by Mercer−0.7 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
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Read by Ellis+0.5 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
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