Hormel Foods Ownership | Who Owns Hormel Foods?

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Hormel Foods Ownership Summary

Hormel Foods is owned by 42.90% institutional investors, 0.25% insiders, and 56.85% retail investors. Vanguard group is the largest institutional shareholder, holding 6.79% of HRL shares. Vanguard US Total Market Shares ETF is the top mutual fund, with 1.74% of its assets in Hormel Foods shares.

HRL Ownership Benchmark

Type	Name	% Inst	% Insiders	% Retail
Stock	Hormel Foods	42.90%	0.25%	56.85%
Sector	Consumer Defensive Stocks	51.35%	16.41%	32.24%
Industry	Packaged Foods Stocks	56.00%	16.47%	27.53%

Institutional Shareholders

Top Institutional Shareholders by Total Shares

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Value
Vanguard group	37.24M	6.79%	$1.17B
Blackrock	25.50M	4.65%	$777.45M
Blackrock funding, inc. /de	24.62M	4.47%	$744.65M
State street	24.45M	4.46%	$745.50M
Invesco	7.84M	1.43%	$246.04M
Geode capital management	7.46M	1.36%	$233.46M
Proshare advisors	6.07M	1.11%	$190.50M
Champlain investment partners	5.23M	0.95%	$164.16M
Millennium management	4.49M	0.82%	$140.81M
Stifel financial	4.37M	0.80%	$137.23M

Top Institutional Shareholders by % of Total Assets

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Value
Epiq partners	407.68K	6.92%	$12.79M
Bontempo ohly capital mgmt	126.15K	1.93%	$3.96M
Grandfield & dodd	974.58K	1.73%	$29.48M
Kinloch capital	117.62K	1.66%	$3.56M
Sjs investment consulting	476.39K	1.61%	$11.79M
Mairs & power	4.22M	1.26%	$127.67M
Walnut level capital	75.00K	1.23%	$2.27M
Peninsula asset management	70.10K	1.12%	$2.12M
Champlain investment partners	5.23M	1.04%	$164.16M
Wmg financial advisors	123.84K	1.02%	$3.06M

Top Buyers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Norges bank	3.27M	0.01%	3.27M
Ubs group	3.76M	0.02%	2.72M
Two sigma advisers, lp	2.19M	0.16%	1.82M
Two sigma investments, lp	2.05M	0.14%	1.69M
Bank of new york mellon	2.93M	0.02%	1.18M

Top Sellers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Capital investors	-	-	-1.90M
Blackrock	25.50M	0.02%	-1.11M
Liberty one investment management	-	-	-862.31K
State street	24.45M	0.03%	-717.61K
Apg asset management	-	-	-626.43K

New Positions

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change	Value
Norges bank	3.27M	0.01%	3.27M	$102.60M
J. goldman & co lp	1.08M	0.78%	1.08M	$32.62M
Miller howard investments inc /ny	801.30K	0.60%	801.30K	$19.82M
Freestone grove partners lp	397.86K	0.09%	397.86K	$12.04M
Fjarde ap-fonden (the fourth swedish national pensionfund)	176.49K	0.06%	176.49K	$5.38M

Sold Out

Holder	Change
West branch capital	-1.00
Transamerica financial advisors	-1.00
Bokf, na	-1.00
Financial gravity asset management	-3.00
First command advisory services	-7.00

Institutional Ownership Trends

Date	Holdings	Change %	Shares	Change %	Ownership	Change %	Increased Position	Change %	Decreased Position	Change %
Jun 30, 2025	649	0.46%	236,077,342	2.68%	42	2.45%	327	12.37%	213	-9.36%
Mar 31, 2025	644	-3.16%	229,551,711	-0.38%	41	2.36%	287	-15.09%	237	8.22%
Dec 31, 2024	473	-26.32%	144,006,734	-33.82%	26	1.67%	232	-27.27%	163	-23.11%
Sep 30, 2024	631	-0.47%	217,452,320	-2.49%	39	2.40%	312	0.32%	208	-5.02%
Jun 30, 2024	626	-5.29%	222,179,501	0.92%	40	2.50%	305	-1.93%	217	-9.21%

Top Mutual Funds Shareholders

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Change
Vanguard US Total Market Shares ETF	9.58M	1.74%	6.55K
Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx Inv	9.53M	1.73%	-228.99K
Vanguard Institutional 500 Index Trust	8.28M	1.51%	68.71K
Vanguard 500 Index Investor	7.22M	1.31%	-1.06M
Vanguard Mid Cap Index Institutional	6.75M	1.23%	72.53K
ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats	5.76M	1.05%	-
Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight ETF	4.58M	0.83%	6.73K
Fidelity 500 Index	3.69M	0.67%	1.61K
SPDR® S&P 500 ETF	3.63M	0.66%	-53.01K
SPDR® S&P 500® ETF Trust	3.53M	0.64%	-18.47K

Recent Insider Transactions

Date	Name	Role	Activity	Value
Mar 27, 2025	Murano Elsa A	-	Sell	$136.80K
Dec 06, 2024	LYKKEN STEVEN J	GROUP VICE PRESIDENT	Buy	$159.25K
Aug 15, 2023	Kuehneman Paul R	VICE PRESIDENT AND CONTROLLER	Buy	$4.39K
Sep 27, 2024	LYKKEN STEVEN J	GROUP VICE PRESIDENT	Sell	$312.69K
Sep 18, 2024	Myers Kevin L	SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT	Sell	$327.00K

Insider Transactions Trends

Date	Buy	Sell
2025 Q3	-	-
2025 Q2	-	-
2025 Q1	-	1
2024 Q4	1	-
2024 Q3	-	3

HRL Ownership FAQ

Who Owns Hormel Foods?

Hormel Foods shareholders are primarily institutional investors at 42.90%, followed by 0.25% insiders and 56.85% retail investors. The average institutional ownership in Hormel Foods's industry, Packaged Foods Stocks, is 56.00%, which Hormel Foods falls below.

Who owns the most shares of Hormel Foods?

Hormel Foods’s largest shareholders are Vanguard group (37.24M shares, 6.79%), Blackrock (25.5M shares, 4.65%), and Blackrock funding, inc. /de (24.62M shares, 4.47%). Together, they hold 15.92% of Hormel Foods’s total shares outstanding.

Does Blackrock own Hormel Foods?

Yes, BlackRock owns 4.65% of Hormel Foods, totaling 25.5M shares as of Jun 2024. This represents 0.02% of BlackRock's total assets, with a market value of 777.45M$. In the last quarter, BlackRock decreased its holdings by -1.113M shares, a -4.18% change.

Who is Hormel Foods’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested?

Epiq partners is Hormel Foods’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested, with 6.92% of its assets in 407.68K Hormel Foods shares, valued at 12.79M$.

Who is the top mutual fund holder of Hormel Foods shares?

Vanguard US Total Market Shares ETF is the top mutual fund holder of Hormel Foods shares, with 1.74% of its total shares outstanding invested in 9.58M Hormel Foods shares.

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