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HRL

HRL

Hormel Foods Corporation · Consumer Defensive

US StocksPackaged FoodsNYQUSD-56.2% from ATH
Current Price

$20.83

Drawdown from ATH

-56.2%

Last Updated

Sep 18, 2026

Dipsern Grade90d

A

Strong

Graded against HRL's own history at this drawdown — not the market's.

What it means: When HRL was last this far below its all-time high, history leaned positive over the next 90 days.

What to do: A reasonable spot to research a buy and act at your own broker — not financial advice.

Median 90-Day Return
Historical Win Rate
Last 30 days-16.75%
Aug 7Sep 18
About HRL

Hormel Foods Corporation

Hormel Foods Corporation develops, processes, and distributes various meat, nut, and other food products to foodservice, convenience stores, and commercial customers in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Retail, Foodservice, and International. The company provides perishable products, including fresh meats, frozen items, refrigerated meal solutions, bacon, sausages, hams, guacamole, and other items that require refrigeration, as well as shelf-stable produc

The reading

How Dipsern reads HRL right now.

Three plain-English paragraphs — current state, historical base rate, and interpretation — so you walk away with context, not a dashboard.

Snapshot

How is HRL doing right now?

In plain terms: HRL is 56.2% below its highest-ever price. Dipsern checks every past time it was this far down and grades how the next 90 days usually went.

Right now HRL — Hormel Foods — is in a severe drawdown, down 56.2% from its record high. Last price: $20.83. Severe drawdowns separate structurally sound assets from the ones that don't recover. The historical data below shows what HRL did after similar episodes.

Historical base rate

What history says at this drawdown

HRL reaches this drawdown band repeatedly in its history (46 observations), which is a modest sample for the segmentation engine to compute a stable median forward return. The engine uses a rolling 90-day window and gives more weight to recent years — this lets the signal adapt to regime changes (e.g., post-COVID volatility) without losing the long-run base rate.

Interpretation

What this means for HRL

For US large-caps, drawdowns of 20-30% are typically driven by macro repricing (rates, earnings, sector rotation). Single-name 50%+ drawdowns are usually structural — the signal alone won't tell you which, but the segments table will show whether prior episodes recovered. At this depth, focus on prediction error and sample size before median return. A high historical median return at -40% means nothing if the prediction error was also 30%.

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Historical depth

Sample sizes by drawdown band

Dipsern segments the full drawdown range into 20 equal-width bands. The table shows the number of confirmed historical observations in each band for HRL. Median forward returns, win rates, and prediction errors are available in the full analysis.

Drawdown BandObservationsMedian ReturnWin Rate
-60% to -55%Current46
-55% to -50%111
-50% to -45%47
-45% to -40%182
-40% to -35%257
-35% to -30%224
-30% to -25%419
-25% to -20%907
-20% to -15%1352
-15% to -10%1800
-10% to -5%2274
-5% to 0%4040
Methodology

Every grade is reproducible.

We segment 40+ years of HRL's price history into 20 equal-width drawdown bands and compute forward median returns, win rates, and prediction error per band. No look-ahead bias. Pure NumPy. Open math, gated numbers.

Years of history

40+

Drawdown bands

20

Look-ahead bias

None

Data sources

4

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Signal computed Sep 18, 2026 using default parameters (90-day return period, 20 segments, 0.95 decay). Data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Binance, CoinGecko, and Steam Market.