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Tyson Foods, Inc. (TSN)

NYSE / Consumer Defensive / Agricultural Farm Products

Share price

54.04 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

19.01B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Nov 10, 2025
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
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

2.7% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

40.63x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

6.1% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 36.88B USDFY2016 Net income: 1.77B USDFY2017 Revenue: 38.26B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.77B USDFY2018 Revenue: 40.05B USDFY2018 Net income: 2.97B USDFY2019 Revenue: 42.41B USDFY2019 Net income: 1.98B USDFY2020 Revenue: 43.19B USDFY2020 Net income: 2.06B USDFY2021 Revenue: 47.05B USDFY2021 Net income: 3.05B USDFY2022 Revenue: 53.28B USDFY2022 Net income: 3.24B USDFY2023 Revenue: 52.88B USDFY2023 Net income: -648.0M USDFY2024 Revenue: 53.31B USDFY2024 Net income: 800.0M USDFY2025 Revenue: 54.44B USDFY2025 Net income: 474.0M 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 40.63x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits above the highest.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (135 companies), 40.63x sits at the 85th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 13.84x to 33.63x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 2.7% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of capital" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns below the usual cost of the capital employed.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (102 companies), 2.7% sits at the 24th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 2.7% to 14.1%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 2.45x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Speculative grade" (1.50x to 3.00x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.

Year by year against peers
Whether Tyson Foods, Inc.'s return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Consumer Defensive sector, year by year. (FY2023 to FY2025, 3 fiscal years of Tyson Foods, Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Tyson Foods, Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Tyson Foods, Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Tyson Foods, Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (6 readings drawn from the statement lines Tyson Foods, Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Tyson Foods, Inc., and where in its filings. (3 questions for Tyson Foods, Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Tyson Foods, Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (16 of sixteen figures read for Tyson Foods, Inc.)

These are TSN’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 FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, accession 0000100493-25-000095.

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Quality

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

SEC filingComputed

Tyson Foods, Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax2.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Return on equity2.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Return on capital employed, pre-tax3.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Return on assets1.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Gross margin6.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Operating margin2.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Net margin0.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
TSN 0.9%
BG 1.2%PFGC 0.5%USFD 1.7%JBS 2.4%KHC -23.4%
-23.4%2.4%
Net margin: TSN 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

Tyson Foods, Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.55 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Current ratio1.55 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Quick ratio0.66 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Interest coverage2.45x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Altman Z-score3.04 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Net debt8.63B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Total assets 36.66BTotal liabilities 18.43BShareholders' equity 18.09BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Tyson Foods, Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095).

Tyson Foods, Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets36.66B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025
Total liabilities18.43B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025
Shareholders' equity18.09B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025
Cash1.23B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025
Total debt9.86B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025
Net debt8.63B
Current ratio1.55
Debt to equity0.55

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

Tyson Foods, Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings40.63x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
P/E on trailing twelve months33.07x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book1.07x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Price to sales0.35x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Enterprise value to EBIT25.43x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Enterprise value to EBITDA11.41x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Price to earnings over growth
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 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Diluted earnings per share1.33 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Graham number38.94 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value TSN 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 Tyson Foods, Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Tyson Foods, Inc: valuation
Share price54.04 USD
Market capitalisation19.01B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA11.41x
Graham number38.94 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20251.33 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Aug 7, 2017: low 5.73x, median 12.85x, high 117.39x, latest 33.07x. 2,057 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 251 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 Tyson Foods, Inc

  1. Bunge Global S.A. (BG)Market cap 20.56B USD
  2. Performance Food Group Company (PFGC)Market cap 15.28B USD
  3. US Foods Holding Corp. (USFD)Market cap 21.95B USD
  4. JBS N.V. (JBS)Market cap 28.21B USD
  5. The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC)Market cap 27.61B 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

Tyson Foods, Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield6.1% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Free cash flow1.18B USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Free cash flow margin2.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Dividend yield3.8% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Payout ratio147.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
FY2016 Free cash flow: 2.02B USDFY2016 Net income: 1.77B USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 1.53B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.77B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 1.76B USDFY2018 Net income: 2.97B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 1.25B USDFY2019 Net income: 1.98B USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 2.67B USDFY2020 Net income: 2.06B USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 2.63B USDFY2021 Net income: 3.05B USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 800.0M USDFY2022 Net income: 3.24B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: -187.0M USDFY2023 Net income: -648.0M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 1.46B USDFY2024 Net income: 800.0M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 1.18B USDFY2025 Net income: 474.0M 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.

Tyson Foods, Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
40.63xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.07xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
25.43xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
6.1%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
2.7%FY2025Nov 10, 2025
3.8%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.55FY2025Nov 10, 2025
1.55FY2025Nov 10, 2025
0.35xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
3.04FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.70FY2025Nov 10, 2025
5/9FY2025Nov 10, 2025

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, 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, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Tyson Foods, Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Tyson Foods, Inc: 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
FY202554.44B1.10B474.0M1.331.18B2.0%2.6%10-K, Nov 10, 20250000100493-25-000095
FY202453.31B1.41B800.0M2.251.46B2.6%4.3%10-K, Nov 12, 20240000100493-24-000119
FY202352.88B-395.0M-648.0M-1.87-187.0M-0.8%-3.6%10-K, Nov 13, 20230000100493-23-000105
FY202253.28B4.41B3.24B8.92800.0M8.3%16.4%10-K, Nov 14, 20220000100493-22-000097
FY202147.05B4.40B3.05B8.342.63B9.3%17.2%10-K, Nov 15, 20210000100493-21-000122
FY202043.19B3.01B2.06B5.642.67B7.0%13.5%10-K, Nov 16, 20200000100493-20-000132
FY201942.41B2.77B1.98B5.401.25B6.5%14.2%10-K, Nov 12, 20190000100493-19-000118
FY201840.05B2.97B2.97B8.041.76B7.4%23.2%10-K, Nov 13, 20180000100493-18-000108
FY201738.26B2.92B1.77B4.791.53B7.6%16.8%10-K, Nov 13, 20170000100493-17-000133
FY201636.88B2.83B1.77B4.532.02B7.7%18.4%10-K, Nov 21, 20160000100493-16-000281
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 4.4%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -13.6%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -12.7%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -5.8%

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

Tyson Foods, Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.70 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 10, 2025, 0000100493-25-000095
Named tests met1 of 30 Computed
Beta0.30 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 1 met, 29 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
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; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; ROIC at or above WACC; 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)
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: 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 the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What to do with what you have read.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 3 figures could not be read on this company: Positive Earnings Streak, PEG Ratio, Eps Growth 5Y.

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