Hormel Foods HRL Return on equity
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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 equity?
- Hormel Foods (HRL) reported return on equity of 9.5% in Q2 2025.
- How has Hormel Foods's return on equity changed year-over-year?
- Hormel Foods's return on equity decreased by 5.6% year-over-year, from 10% to 9.5%.
- What is the long-term trend for Hormel Foods's return on equity?
- Over 4 years (2020 to 2024), Hormel Foods's return on equity has grown at a -8.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 14.7% to 10.2%.
- What does return on equity mean?
- How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
- How do you interpret return on equity?
- Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
- How does return on equity compare across companies?
- Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.