Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL) is included among the 14 Best Food Dividend Stocks to Buy According to Analysts.
Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL), the company behind many familiar grocery staples, had a somewhat uneven performance in its fiscal third quarter of 2025. The food maker reported adjusted earnings of $0.35 per share on $3.03 billion in sales. That was slightly better than expected on the revenue side but fell short of analysts’ profit estimates, which were around $0.41 a share.
Organic sales were up 6% from a year ago, and overall revenue climbed roughly 4.5%. Even so, profits slipped about 5% compared to last year’s results. To make things tougher, Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL)’s management issued a cautious outlook for the next quarter that didn’t do much to lift investor confidence.
For the upcoming period, the company expects revenue to land somewhere between $3.15 billion and $3.25 billion. That’s only a modest improvement from the $3.1 billion it reported in the same quarter last year. Organic sales growth is now projected to slow to a range of 1% to 4%, a clear step down from the stronger growth seen earlier in the year.
That said, Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL)’s dividend provides a little relief to worried investors. The company has been rewarding shareholders with growing dividends consistently for the past 59 years and offers a per-share dividend of $0.29 every quarter. The stock supports a dividend yield of 4.71%, as of October 5.
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