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Tyson Foods, Inc. TSN

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
5 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$54.4B
▲ 2.1% YoY
$474.0M
▼ 40.8% YoY
$1.2B
▼ 19.3% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Tyson Foods produces fresh, value-added, frozen and refrigerated food products. It also processes live fed cattle and hogs and fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, case-ready beef and pork and fully-cooked meats. The company runs a vertically-integrated chicken production process whose operations consist of breeding stock, contract farmers, feed production, processing, further-processing, marketing and transportation of chicken and related specialty products. Headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas, it had approximately 133,000 employees on September 27, 2025. Walmart Inc. accounted for approximately 18.7% of consolidated sales in fiscal 2025. Operations are divided into four reportable segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken and Prepared Foods. Prepared Foods manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products under brands that include Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, State Fair, Aidells and Gallo Salame. The company was founded in 1935 by John W. Tyson.

Written from the business description in TYSON FOODS, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 10 November 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 54.4B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 54.4 · Net income 0.5
20B40B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+0.7%
+4.7%
+2.8%
+4.4%
−47.3%
−25.5%
−9.0%
−3.3%
−47.0%
−25.1%
−7.7%
−2.9%
+44.2%
+43.5%
+2.2%
−2.2%
+2.2%
+13.3%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +4.7% a year over the five years to FY2025.

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.

Profitability

1 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 2.0% · Net 0.9%
5%-1%-2%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 2.6%
10%20%-5%-10%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin6.5%
Operating margin2.0%
Net margin0.9%
EBITDAUSD 2.4B

Each USD of equity produced 3 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 697.0M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 1.2
1B2B
200820162025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 0.7 · Net buybacks ·
1.00B2.00B-0.25B-0.50BDividendsNet buybacks
2008201120142017202020232025
Dividends paidUSD 697.0M
Net buybacks·
Share of profit147.0%
Consecutive raises5 years

USD 697.0M in dividends — 147% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 36.7B
EquityUSD 18.1B
CashUSD 1.2B
Gross debtUSD 8.8B
Net debtUSD 7.6B
Current ratio1.55×

Net debt stands at 42% of equity.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
TSN, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B54.453.352.953.347.043.242.440.138.336.941.437.634.433.132.028.426.726.9
Operating income $B1.11.4−0.44.44.43.02.83.02.92.82.21.41.41.31.31.6−0.20.3
EBITDA $B2.42.80.95.65.64.23.93.93.73.52.91.91.91.71.72.00.20.8
Income tax $B0.30.3−0.00.91.00.60.4−0.30.80.80.70.40.40.40.30.40.00.1
Net income $B0.50.8−0.63.23.02.12.03.01.81.81.20.90.80.60.80.8−0.50.1
Free cash flow $B1.21.5−0.20.82.62.71.31.81.52.01.70.50.80.50.40.90.6−0.1
EPS, diluted $1.332.25−1.878.928.345.645.408.044.794.532.952.372.121.581.972.06−1.470.24
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌0.970.650.420.330.310.160.16◌◌◌
Payout %14786−103202129271518121212131088−1165
ROE %2.64.4−3.417.318.514.114.825.417.618.313.111.512.710.013.916.3−11.51.7

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 1 failure in 88 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency1 failure
ActivityPoultry Slaughtering and Processing
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsOctober 3
Data on record since2008

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