HRL - Hormel Foods Corporation
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, refrigerated meal solutions, sausages, hams, guacamoles, and bacons; and shelf-stable products comprising canned luncheon meats, nut butters, snack nuts, chilies, shelf-stable microwaveable meals, hashes, stews, tortillas, salsas, tortilla chips, and others.
As of May 15, 2026: spot at $19.74, ATM IV 36.0%, max pain $20.00, net GEX -$260.7K.
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Packaged Foods
- Market Cap
- $10.96B
- P/E Ratio
- 22.40
- Beta
- 0.31
- 52-Week Range
- 19.81-31.86
- Dividend Yield
- $1.17
- CEO
- Jeffrey Ettinger
- Employees
- 20,000
- IPO Date
- Mar 17, 1980
- Exchange
- NYSE
What HRL Looks Like to Options Traders Today
IV rank of 54.8% sits near the 1-year median, where strategy choice depends on directional conviction and the event calendar rather than vol regime alone; negative net gamma exposure (-$260.7K) means dealers hedge with trend, amplifying realized volatility and accelerating directional moves; the 25-delta skew (0.023) prices calls richer than puts, often reflecting upside speculation or squeeze risk.
What This Page Covers
The HRL overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure. Corporate data is on fundamentals, earnings, analyst ratings, and insider trading.
Frequently asked HRL overview questions
- What is HRL?
- HRL is the ticker symbol for Hormel Foods Corporation, a listed security. 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. Listed on NYSE. HRL is the equity ticker shown on this page; equity options traders use the security for directional, volatility, and income strategies via the listed options chain.
- What does the HRL options snapshot look like today?
- As of May 15, 2026, the HRL options snapshot shows spot at $19.74, ATM IV 36.0%, IV rank 54.8%, max pain $20.00, net GEX -$260.7K, expected move 10.31%. The full options chain, Greeks by strike and expiration, per-strike open-interest distribution, dealer gamma and delta exposure, and the volatility skew surface are linked from this overview page. Each per-metric route refreshes once per trading session and reflects the most recent close-of-business listed-options state.
- What are HRL's key statistics?
- Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) carries a market capitalization of $10.96B, trailing P/E ratio of 22.40, beta of 0.31 relative to the broader market, 52-week range of 19.81-31.86. Full income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and TTM ratio history is on the per-ticker fundamentals page; daily price history and 52-week levels are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the options market prices implied volatility around earnings windows and capital events.
- What sector or industry does HRL belong to?
- Hormel Foods Corporation operates in the Consumer Defensive sector, in the Packaged Foods industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare HRL's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the HRL data on this page?
- The options snapshot above is dated May 15, 2026 and refreshes once per session, with all per-strike Greeks and exposure aggregates recomputed at the daily close. Company-profile fields (sector, industry, market cap, P/E, IPO date) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. Financials and earnings refresh as 10-K and 10-Q filings are parsed (typically within several business days of the actual report). FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence (daily for short volume, bi-monthly for short interest, weekly for the OTC volume file, twice-monthly for SEC FTD).