HRL

Hormel Foods Corp.

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Is HRL Halal?

Pork and processed foods — core activity fails qualitatively.

What You Should Know

Hormel's April 26, 2026 filing reports debt/assets of 21.40%, liquidity/assets of 6.44%, receivables plus cash/assets of 11.89% and disclosed interest income of 0.22% of quarterly sales. Pork and processed-meat activity is treated as impermissible under the site's qualitative framework despite passing examined financial ratios.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Pork is a core product line
  • Food sourcing and non-halal activity require review
  • Disclosed interest income is not a purification prescription

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-04-26; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
21.40%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,856.339 / 13,344.286

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
6.44%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

859.857 / 13,344.286

Receivables + cash / assets
11.89%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,586.823 / 13,344.286

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.22%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

6.479 / 2,972.6

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Pass
Overall
Fails

Debt is 21.40% of assets, liquidity is 6.44%, receivables plus cash are 11.89% and disclosed interest income is 0.22%; core pork activity fails qualitatively.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Pass
Overall
Fails

Financial ratios are below examined limits, but core pork activity fails qualitatively.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Pass
Overall
Fails

Financial ratios are below examined Malaysia limits, but core pork activity fails; this is not an official classification.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored; core activity failure is independent of that denominator.

Business-activity disclosure

Hormel's portfolio includes Spam, pork, processed meats and other food brands. Pork is a core business line treated as impermissible under the site's qualitative framework; financial ratios otherwise pass the examined limits.

Limitation: Treating all quarterly revenue as prohibited core-business revenue is an explicit analytical assumption, not an official Sharia classification.

Purification

Purification is not calculated because the core business activity fails; the disclosed interest-income ratio is not a donation prescription.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD thousands converted to millions from Hormel's April 26, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Debt includes $505.335 million current maturities and $2,351.004 million long-term debt; operating leases are excluded.
  • Cash is $826.750 million and short-term marketable securities are $33.107 million.
  • Accounts and other receivables are $760.073 million and quarterly net sales are $2,972.6 million; disclosed interest income is $6.479 million.
  • Hormel's core pork and processed-meat activity is treated as prohibited under the site's qualitative framework; the full quarterly revenue is used as the activity numerator, an explicit site-level assumption.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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