Hormel Foods (Hormel Foods) Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow

Hormel Foods Annual Data
	Trend	Oct14	Oct15	Oct16	Oct17	Oct18	Oct19	Oct20	Oct21	Oct22	Oct23
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow							35.43	35.00	30.12	29.81	22.97

Hormel Foods Quarterly Data
	Apr19	Jul19	Oct19	Jan20	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jan21	Apr21	Jul21	Oct21	Jan22	Apr22	Jul22	Oct22	Jan23	Apr23	Jul23	Oct23	Jan24
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow																36.16	30.50	26.63	22.97	17.20

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Hormel Foods's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Hormel Foods's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Hormel Foods's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.

Hormel Foods Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Calculation

Hormel Foods's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow ratio for today is calculated as

Hormel Foods's Share Price of today is $34.74.
Hormel Foods's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.77.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:

Hormel Foods  (NYSE:HRL) Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Explanation

Free Cash Flow is considered more important than earnings by value investors. The reason is because, in principle, only the net cash that can be taken from the business belongs to shareholders. This Free Cash Flow can be used to grow the business, reduce debt or return to shareholders in dividends or share buybacks.

In a DCF Calculation Free Cash Flow is used to determine the intrinsic value of companies.

Be Aware

In real business, Free Cash Flow can be affected by the change in accounts receivable, accounts payable, management's decision on expansion, etc. Therefore, investors should look at the Free Cash Flow over the longer term. Long-term average of Free Cash Flow is a more reliable indicator for real free cash flow.

Hormel Foods Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Related Terms

Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of Hormel Foods's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.

Hormel Foods (Hormel Foods) Business Description