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Hormel Foods Corporation develops, processes, and distributes various meat, nuts, and other food products to foodservice, convenience store, and commercial customers in the United States and internati...
The following section summarizes insights on Hormel Foods Corporation's Price / Book:
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Metrics similar to Price / Book in the valuation category include:
Compares a firm's market value of equity to the amount of common equity listed on the balance sheet.
Price to Book is defined as:
Price / Book = Market Cap / Common Equity
Applying this formula, Hormel Foods’s Price / Book is calculated below:
Market Capitalization [ $16.904 B ]
(/) Common Equity [ $8.028 B ]
(=) Price / Book [ 2.1x ]
Price / Book (P/B) also known as the price-to-book ratio, or P/B ratio, is a financial ratio that compares a company’s current market cap to its book value. It is the inverse of Book to Market and the same as Market Cap / Book Value.
The tables below summarizes the trend in Hormel Foods’s price / book over the last five years:
| Date | Market Cap | Book Value | Price / Book |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-25 | 26.936 B | 6.426 B | 4.2 |
| 2021-10-31 | 23.585 B | 6.973 B | 3.4 |
| 2022-10-30 | 25.969 B | 7.535 B | 3.4 |
| 2023-10-29 | 17.838 B | 7.735 B | 2.3 |
| 2024-10-27 | 17.021 B | 7.993 B | 2.1 |
The chart above depicts the distribution of price / book for companies operating in the Consumer Staples sector in the Developed economic region. Over 1,370 companies were considered in this analysis, and 903 had meaningful values. The average price / book of companies in the sector is 1.9x with a standard deviation of 1.6x.
Hormel Foods Corporation's Price / Book of 2.1x ranks in the 66.8% percentile for the sector. The following table provides additional summary stats:
| Economic Risk Region | Developed |
| Total Constituents | 1,371 |
| Included Constituents | 903 |
| Min | -2.6x |
| Max | 6.9x |
| Median | 1.4x |
| Mean | 1.9x |
| Standard Deviation | 1.6x |
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