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President and Board Member · Hormel Foods Corp (HRL)

John Ghingo

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for John Ghingo as a named executive officer of Hormel Foods; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,401,213

4th of 6 named executive officers at Hormel Foods by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed December 17, 2025 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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John Ghingo compensation by year

Hormel Foods Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Hormel Foods reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$561,923
Bonus$0
Stock awards$515,424
Option awards$515,498
Non-equity incentive$534,474
Pension and deferred compensation$105,120
All other$168,774
Total$2,401,213

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Hormel Foods Corp DEF 14A filed December 17, 2025, accession 0000048465-25-000074, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Hormel Foods Corp filed document, accession 0000048465-25-000074. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed December 17, 2025.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU14,529$346,223—
RSU12,285$292,749—
RSU4,078$97,179—
Option58,600—$33.55
Option22,600—$28.30

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Hormel Foods Corp's FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

2 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed December 17, 2025)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-02-02Grant or award—32,707$0.0064,000.82
2026-02-02Grant or award derivative—201,000$0.00201,000

The 2 most recent of 2 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

Hormel Foods’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
James SneeFormer President and Chief Executive Officer$7,395,224
Jeffrey EttingerInterim Chief Executive Officer and Board Member$6,428,699
Jacinth SmileyFormer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,730,149
John Ghingo · this pagePresident and Board Member$2,401,213
Colleen BatchelerSenior Vice President, External Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary$2,195,864
Swen NeufeldtGroup Vice President, Hormel Foods International$1,583,080

Board service

Hormel Foods board · FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Hormel Foods pays directors a $100,000 cash retainer and $160,000 in equity. As stated in Hormel Foods's FY2025 proxy.

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