# HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION (HRL) FY2026 Q3 Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION (HRL)
- Period: 2026-04-27 to 2026-07-26
- Filing: Q3 FY2026 10-Q, filed 2026-08-27, accession number 0000048465-26-000055
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/hrl/fy2026-q3-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/hrl-fy2026-q3-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Apr 27, 2026 through Jul 26, 2026. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations. Beginning cash: Apr 26, 2026. Ending cash: Jul 26, 2026. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Apr 26, 2026**: 826,750,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations
- **Operating activities**: 240,599,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Decrease (Increase) in Inventories**: negative 57,433,000 US dollars
- **Decrease (Increase) in Accounts Receivable**: 22,137,000 US dollars
- **Increase (Decrease) in Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses**: 22,596,000 US dollars
- **Loss (Gain) on Divestitures**: 57,379,000 US dollars
- **Net Earnings**: 59,519,000 US dollars
- **Non-cash Investment Activities**: negative 2,369,000 US dollars
- **Distributions Received from Equity Method Investees**: 12,199,000 US dollars
- **Increase (Decrease) in Pension and Postretirement Benefits**: 3,547,000 US dollars
- **Equity in Earnings of Affiliates**: 37,110,000 US dollars
- **Provision for Deferred Income Taxes**: negative 523,000 US dollars
- **Stock-based Compensation Expense**: 4,848,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation and Amortization**: 66,427,000 US dollars
- **Increase (Decrease) in Net Income Taxes Payable**: 6,462,000 US dollars
- **Operating Lease Cost**: 10,950,000 US dollars
- **Decrease (Increase) in Prepaid Expenses and Other Assets**: 516,000 US dollars
- **Other Non-cash, Net**: negative 2,766,000 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: negative 61,525,000 US dollars. Net cash used. The remaining amount is calculated by subtracting the other displayed items from the investing total. This quarter is the year to date less the prior quarter's year to date, and the prior quarter's tagged investing lines do not add up to its total. The prior quarter reported part of this section under different lines (Net Sale (Purchase) of Securities), so Net Sale (Purchase) of Securities cannot be separated for this quarter. It may combine inflows and outflows.
- **Proceeds from (Purchases of) Affiliates and Other Investments**: 0 US dollars
- **Proceeds from Company-owned Life Insurance**: 3,473,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from Sale of Business**: negative 2,979,000 US dollars
- **Purchases of Property, Plant, and Equipment**: negative 68,164,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from Sales of Property, Plant, and Equipment**: 2,646,000 US dollars
- **Remaining investing cash flows, net (calculated)**: 3,499,000 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: negative 163,019,000 US dollars. Net cash used. The remaining amount is calculated by subtracting the other displayed items from the financing total. This quarter is the year to date less the prior quarter's year to date, and the prior quarter's tagged financing lines do not add up to its total. It may combine inflows and outflows.
- **Dividends Paid on Common Stock**: negative 160,964,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from Stock-based Compensation Plans, Net of Withholding Taxes**: negative 418,000 US dollars
- **Repayments of Long-term Debt and Finance Leases**: negative 1,773,000 US dollars
- **Remaining financing cash flows, net (calculated)**: 136,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 244,171,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the operating reconciliation branches. Its gross amount includes any portion of net income routed through this junction. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **financing displayed reconciliation**: 163,155,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the displayed items and the calculated net remainder. It does not establish gross cash receipts or payments and is not an additional cash flow.
- **investing displayed reconciliation**: 71,143,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the displayed items and the calculated net remainder. It does not establish gross cash receipts or payments and is not an additional cash flow.
- **Exchange-rate effect**: 1,292,000 US dollars
- **Difference in the filed cash totals (calculated)**: negative 2,000 US dollars. Out of cash; drawn as the small gray flow above ending cash.
- **Ending cash on Jul 26, 2026**: 844,095,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations
- **Cash sources and uses**: 1,068,641,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: 17,345,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: 4.04×. Operating cash flow divided by reconciliation net income for the same period. Black from 0.90× through 1.10×; green above 1.10×; red below 0.90×. Color uses the unrounded ratio.
- **Operating cash flow**: 240,599,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment**: 68,164,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: 172,435,000 US dollars. A supplemental measure; finance-lease payments are excluded from this definition.

### Chart connections

- Beginning cash plus operating, investing and financing cash flows plus the exchange-rate effect equals ending cash. Negative amounts reduce cash.
- Financing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Investing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Operating reconciliation adjustments are not all independent cash receipts.
- Net income enters operating cash directly in the reconciliation. The adjustment junction contributes the remaining $181.08M after reconciling the other positive and negative adjustments. These connections depict an accounting reconciliation, not traced cash receipts.
- Each activity has one net cash bar connected to the shared cash pool. Positive activity totals enter the pool; negative activity totals leave the pool to fund that activity's net payments. The central pool does not assign a particular funding source to a particular payment.
- The intermediate calculation bars include both sides of the displayed activity breakdowns; they are not additional cash flows.
- The filer's reported cash figures differ by $2.00 K: its operating, investing and financing totals and exchange-rate effect do not add up to its reported net change in cash. The chart shows the difference as its own calculated flow; no reported amount has been adjusted.
- Operating cash flow minus cash purchases of property, plant and equipment equals free cash flow: 240,599,000 US dollars minus 68,164,000 US dollars equals 172,435,000 US dollars.
- The filer's reported cash figures differ by $2.00 K: its operating, investing and financing totals and exchange-rate effect do not add up to its reported net change in cash. The chart shows the difference as its own calculated flow; no reported amount has been adjusted.