Hormel Foods HRL Return on assets
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Hormel Foods’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: Hormel Foods’s 10-Q, filed August 28, 2025, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Hormel Foods's return on assets?
- Hormel Foods (HRL) reported return on assets of 5.7% in Q2 2025.
- How has Hormel Foods's return on assets changed year-over-year?
- Hormel Foods's return on assets decreased by 3.6% year-over-year, from 5.9% to 5.7%.
- What is the long-term trend for Hormel Foods's return on assets?
- Over 4 years (2020 to 2024), Hormel Foods's return on assets has grown at a -12.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 10.1% to 6%.
- What does return on assets mean?
- How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
- How do you interpret return on assets?
- Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
- How does return on assets compare across companies?
- Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.