SweetValueLab
Write for us

Tyson Foods, Inc. — Intrinsic Value & Fair Price

TSN
NYSEConsumer DefensiveAgricultural Farm ProductsCIK 0000100493tysonfoods.comAbout TSN
Last close · Oct 16, 202654.90+0.86 (+1.59%)
Market cap$19.3B
Model value · DCF · Perpetuity growth · 5y
46.37
Tyson Foods closed at $54.90 — overvalued by 18% vs model.
18.82the model's range121.55

DCF · Perpetuity growth · 5y leads for a cyclical company — positive operating income and three years of positive free cash flow. From a five-year discounted cash flow.

Other models
32.51 – 154.72
Wall St. target
65.50 16% below
Above model, 1y
7 of 20 days

Price and model value

Embed this card

TSN's close against its model value, as a 420×168 card for your own page. It updates nightly with this site and links back here.

Free to embed; keep the attribution link.
Loading chart…
What the marks mean
Daily close

Dividends

Quarterly · as of Oct 16, 2026
Yield, trailing 12 months
3.72%
Past 2 years
low 2.94%high 4.04%
Dividends per share, a year at a time
$1.78Aug ’21$1.84Aug ’22$1.92Aug ’23$1.96Aug ’24$2.00Aug ’25$2.04TTM
Dividends / free cash flow, FY2025
59.2%
Raised
13 years in a row
Growth, 5 yrs
2.8% a year
Last change
+2.0% · Dec 2025
Every payment, with ex-dates · latest $0.51, paid Sep 15, 2026

Research on TSN

No posts on TSN yet.
Studied TSN from its filings? Guest posts are reviewed before they go live.Write about TSN →

How it is valued

Valued asCyclical
Low/slowing growth (~1% recent)Thin margins (0.9% net margin)Strong dividend yieldHighly cyclical earningsStrong FCF yield (6.1%)
What growth the price implies: the reverse DCF

Key figures

FY2025 · chosen for cyclical companies
P/E
41.3×
EV / EBITDA
10.4×
FCF yield
6.2%
Dividend yield, TTM
3.72%
Beta
0.40
Cost of capital (WACC)
6.24%
On the lists: #19 Insider buying
Full financials

Analyst actions

third-party, quoted
10-07Piper Sandler · target56.00
09-18JP Morgan · “Overweight” from “Neutral”upgrade
09-10Piper Sandler · target66.00
09-04Barclays · target75.00
Ratings, targets and estimates

The weekly

One email a week across every stock we cover: 13F filings, insider trades, earnings and new research. It covers the whole market, not just TSN. No account.

About Tyson Foods

Tyson Foods, Inc. operates as a prominent global food producer, encompassing a broad range of activities across four core divisions: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. Within its Beef and Pork segments, the company manages the entire process from live cattle and hogs to their transformation into various meat products. This includes fabricating whole carcasses into primary and secondary cuts, providing case-ready options, and producing fully cooked meats. Its Chicken division is responsible for raising and processing poultry, delivering a spectrum of fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken items, and also supplying breeding stock. Additionally, Tyson markets specialty by-products such as animal hides. The Prepared Foods unit focuses on manufacturing and distributing a diverse portfolio of frozen and refrigerated convenience foods. This extensive lineup features items like ready-to-eat sandwiches, flame-grilled burgers, deli staples such as pepperoni, bacon, and lunchmeats, hot dogs, breakfast sausages, turkey products, tortilla items, appetizers, snacks, complete meals, ethnic dishes, side dishes, breadsticks, and other processed meats. These products are sold under popular brands including Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, State Fair, Aidells, Gallo Salame, as well as its proprietary Tyson and ibp labels. Tyson distributes its extensive product range through various channels globally. Its sales force directly serves grocery retailers, wholesalers, meat distributors, warehouse club stores, military commissaries, industrial food processors, chain restaurants and their distributors, live markets, and international export firms. The company also leverages independent brokers and trading companies to reach domestic distributors who cater to a wide array of food service operations, such as institutional cafeterias (e.g., plant and school), convenience stores, hospitals, and other vendors. Founded in 1935, Tyson Foods maintains its corporate headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas.

CEO
Jeffrey K. Schomburger
Headquarters
Springdale, AR
Employees
133,000
IPO
1980-03-17
Full company profile

Model estimates for research reference only, not investment advice. Every model rests on assumptions that may not match what happens; the formulas are in how we value a stock.