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Sysco Corporation (SYY)

NYSE / Consumer Defensive / Food Distribution

Share price

82.15 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

40.41B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2026, filed Aug 21, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
11, FY2016 to FY2026
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

14.7% Computed

From the FY2026 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

22.38x Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

4.9% Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2017 Revenue: 55.37B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.14B USDFY2018 Revenue: 58.73B USDFY2018 Net income: 1.43B USDFY2019 Revenue: 60.11B USDFY2019 Net income: 1.67B USDFY2020 Revenue: 52.89B USDFY2020 Net income: 215.5M USDFY2021 Revenue: 51.30B USDFY2021 Net income: 524.2M USDFY2022 Revenue: 68.64B USDFY2022 Net income: 1.36B USDFY2023 Revenue: 76.33B USDFY2023 Net income: 1.77B USDFY2024 Revenue: 78.84B USDFY2024 Net income: 1.96B USDFY2025 Revenue: 81.37B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.83B USDFY2026 Revenue: 84.55B USDFY2026 Net income: 1.76B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 22.38x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2026 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (135 companies), 22.38x sits at the 56th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 13.84x to 33.63x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 14.7% in FY2026, in the band labelled "Above the cost of capital" (12.0% to 20.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (102 companies), 14.7% sits at the 79th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 2.7% to 14.1%.

Is it safe

Net debt to EBITDA was 3.33x in FY2026, in the band labelled "Elevated" (2.50x to 4.00x), on lines set by credit-analyst convention.

Year by year against peers
Whether Sysco Corporation's return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Consumer Defensive sector, year by year. (FY2021 to FY2025, 5 fiscal years of Sysco Corporation with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Sysco Corporation's return on invested capital has moved, and how steadily. (FY2017 to FY2026, 10 filed years of Sysco Corporation)
What could explain it
What in Sysco Corporation's filed statements could explain the movements. (4 readings drawn from the statement lines Sysco Corporation filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Sysco Corporation, and where in its filings. (4 questions for Sysco Corporation)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Sysco Corporation's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (15 of sixteen figures read for Sysco Corporation)

These are SYY’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2026 annual report: 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, accession 0000096021-26-000033.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Sysco Corporation: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax14.7% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Return on equity65.9% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Return on capital employed, pre-tax17.3% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Return on assets6.2% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Gross margin18.5% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Operating margin3.7% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Net margin2.1% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
SYY 2.1%
ADM 1.3%EL 1.2%JBS 2.4%DG 3.5%FMX 5.2%
1.2%5.2%
Net margin: SYY against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Sysco Corporation: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity5.76 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Current ratio1.28 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Quick ratio1.28 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Altman Z-score
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Net debt13.56B ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Total assets 28.40BTotal liabilities 25.73BShareholders' equity 2.67BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Sysco Corporation owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2026, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033).

Sysco Corporation: balance sheet position
Total assets28.40B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026
Total liabilities25.73B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026
Shareholders' equity2.67B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026
Cash1.80B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026
Total debt15.36B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026
Net debt13.56B
Current ratio1.28
Debt to equity5.76
  • Interest cover: FY2026: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Sysco Corporation: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings22.38x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
P/E on trailing twelve months21.50x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book14.81x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Price to sales0.47x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Enterprise value to EBIT17.14x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Enterprise value to EBITDA13.03x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Price to earnings over growth0.77 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Diluted earnings per share3.66 USD FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Graham number21.40 USD ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value SYY on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Sysco Corporation today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Sysco Corporation: valuation
Share price82.15 USD
Market capitalisation40.41B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA13.03x
Graham number21.40 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20263.66 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Aug 30, 2017: low 8.95x, median 23.76x, high 162.86x, latest 21.50x. 2,086 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 205 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Sysco Corporation

  1. Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM)Market cap 39.97B USD
  2. The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (EL)Market cap 38.84B USD
  3. JBS N.V. (JBS)Market cap 28.21B USD
  4. Dollar General Corporation (DG)Market cap 29.54B USD
  5. Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. (FMX)Market cap 41.22B USD

Same sector (Consumer Defensive) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Sysco Corporation: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield4.9% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Free cash flow1.94B USD ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Free cash flow margin2.3% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Dividend yield2.6% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Payout ratio59.0% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
FY2017 Free cash flow: 1.55B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.14B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 1.47B USDFY2018 Net income: 1.43B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 1.72B USDFY2019 Net income: 1.67B USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 898.3M USDFY2020 Net income: 215.5M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 1.43B USDFY2021 Net income: 524.2M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 1.16B USDFY2022 Net income: 1.36B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 2.08B USDFY2023 Net income: 1.77B USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 2.16B USDFY2024 Net income: 1.96B USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 1.60B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.83B USDFY2026 Free cash flow: 1.94B USDFY2026 Net income: 1.76B USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Sysco Corporation: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
22.38xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
14.81xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
17.14xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
4.9%FY2026Oct 15, 2026
14.7%FY2026Aug 21, 2026
2.6%FY2026Oct 15, 2026
5.76FY2026Aug 21, 2026
1.28FY2026Aug 21, 2026
0.47xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
0.77FY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/a We hold no figure here and no stored reason for its absence. The gap is ours, not the company's.
-2.57FY2026Aug 21, 2026
7/9FY2026Aug 21, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2026, the newest full year on file. 11 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2026, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2026, read from the annual reports Sysco Corporation filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Sysco Corporation: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202684.55B3.10B1.76B3.661.94B3.7%65.9%10-K, Aug 21, 20260000096021-26-000033
FY202581.37B3.09B1.83B3.731.60B3.8%99.9%10-K, Aug 22, 20250000096021-25-000099
FY202478.84B3.20B1.96B3.892.16B4.1%105.1%10-K, Aug 28, 20240000096021-24-000128
FY202376.33B3.04B1.77B3.472.08B4.0%88.1%10-K, Aug 25, 20230000096021-23-000117
FY202268.64B2.35B1.36B2.641.16B3.4%98.3%10-K, Aug 26, 20220000096021-22-000151
FY202151.30B1.45B524.2M1.021.43B2.8%33.8%10-K, Aug 30, 20210000096021-21-000093
FY202052.89B749.5M215.5M0.42898.3M1.4%18.6%10-K, Aug 26, 20200000096021-20-000100
FY201960.11B2.33B1.67B3.201.72B3.9%66.9%10-K, Aug 26, 20190000096021-19-000093
FY201858.73B2.31B1.43B2.701.47B3.9%57.1%10-K, Aug 27, 20180000096021-18-000126
FY201755.37B2.05B1.14B2.081.55B3.7%48.0%10-K, Aug 30, 20170000096021-17-000120
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 4.8%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 4.9%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 6.5%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 2.5%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Sysco Corporation: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.57 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Piotroski F-score7/9 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 21, 2026, 0000096021-26-000033
Named tests met3 of 30 Computed
Beta0.17 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 3 met, 27 not met, 0 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Dividends and buybacks; ROIC at or above WACC; Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Figures we could not read(3)
  • Altman Z-Score: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Interest Coverage: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.
  • Price Tangible Book: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What to do with what you have read.

A thesis is your reason for owning it, in your words, with the figures that must stay true. Checking those figures every night against the newest filed accounts, and telling you once when one breaks, is what the subscription adds.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 3 figures could not be read on this company: Altman Z-Score, Interest Coverage, Price Tangible Book.

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