Smithfield Foods Inc. SFD
What this company does
Written from the business description in SMITHFIELD FOODS, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 24 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Each USD of equity produced 16 cents of profit this year.
The share count changed between 2012 and 2022, but the exact year can't be marked here — the underlying count wasn't on file for every year in that stretch.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 15.5 | 14.1 | 14.6 | 16.2 | 14.4 | 15.0 | 13.9 | 13.2 | 13.1 | 12.2 | 11.2 | 12.5 |
| Operating income $B | 1.3 | 1.1 | −0.1 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.1 | −0.2 |
| EBITDA $B | 1.6 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 1.6 | · | · | · | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Income tax $B | 0.3 | 0.3 | −0.0 | 0.2 | · | · | · | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | −0.1 | −0.1 |
| Net income $B | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.5 | −0.1 | −0.2 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | · | · | · | −0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 2.51 | 2.51 | 0.05 | 2.29 | · | · | · | 1.26 | 2.21 | 3.12 | −0.65 | −1.41 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 1.00 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | 40 | 30 | 1900 | 57 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| ROE % | 15.6 | 14.6 | 0.2 | · | · | · | 3.9 | 5.7 | 10.4 | 16.5 | −3.7 | · |
| Shares out B | 0.39 | 0.38 | 0.38 | · | · | · | · | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.17 | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
Reconciled in 12 of 19 fiscal years. 51 checks could not be computed.