Consumer Defensive
Live Price
Offline$24.94
-0.36% today
1Y Change
+13.38%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026
Coverage: 245 bars · Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Smithfield Foods, Inc. (SFD) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $10.33B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $24.94 and up 13.4% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +9.8%, EPS growth of +3.7%, a dividend yield of 4.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +9.8%, EPS +3.7%, free cash flow -8.8% with operating margin 8.6% and ROIC 9.9%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 4.0%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 10.3 and price/sales 0.7. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a income-oriented value setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines SFD price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
Benchmark Comparison
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SFD
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
SFD Max Drawdown
-18.54%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
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Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$15.0B
-7.3% YoY
FY Net Income
$472.0M
-45.7% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$573.0M
+220.1% YoY
Revenue Growth
+9.8%
EPS Growth
+3.7%
Gross Margin
13.4%
Net Margin
6.5%
Income statement
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| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 15.5B | 14.1B | 14.6B | 16.2B | 15.0B |
| Gross Profit | 2.4B | 1.9B | 889M | 1.5B | 1.6B |
| Operating Income | 1.4B | 1.1B | -56M | 1.1B | 521M |
| EBITDA | 1.6B | 1.5B | 374M | 1.6B | 882M |
| Net Income | 987M | 953M | 17M | 870M | 472M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
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| Metric | 2016 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 705M | 547M | 687M | 943M | 1.5B |
| Total Assets | 9.9B | 13.8B | 13.3B | 11.1B | 12.2B |
| Total Liabilities | 5.0B | 6.3B | 5.8B | 5.0B | 5.1B |
| Shareholder Equity | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total Debt | 2.3B | 2.5B | 2.5B | 2.4B | 2.4B |
| Net Debt | — | — | — | — | — |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
786M
+52.0% YoY
Capital Expenditures
213M
+37.0% YoY
Free Cash Flow
573M
+220.1% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
13.4%
Operating Margin
8.6%
Net Margin
6.5%
ROE
15.3%
Debt / Equity
0.35x
Next Step
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