Pilgrim's Pride
PPC · Packaged Foods & Meats
$28.13
0.1%Tyson Foods
TSN · Packaged Foods & Meats
$56.70
0.6%The short version
- Tyson Foods is the larger business, with $54.4B of revenue in fiscal 2025 against $18.5B for Pilgrim's Pride, about 2.9 times as much.
- Pilgrim's Pride grew revenue faster (3.5%, against 2.1%).
- Pilgrim's Pride kept more of each dollar of sales as operating profit (8.7% operating margin, against 2.0% operating margin).
- Pilgrim's Pride turned more of its sales into free cash flow (3.5% FCF margin, against 2.2% FCF margin).
- Pilgrim's Pride earned a higher return on the capital invested in it (20.1%, against 2.8%).
- Investors pay more for each dollar of Tyson Foods’s earnings: a P/E of 35.0x against 12.2x for Pilgrim's Pride.
| Latest fiscal year | PPC · FY25 | TSN · FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Size | ||
| Market cap | $6.7B | $20.1B |
| Revenue | $18.5B | $54.4B |
| Free cash flow | $653M | $1.2B |
| Net income | $1.1B | $474M |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth | 3.5% | 2.1% |
| 5-year growth | 8.9% | 4.7% |
| Share count change | 0.3% | 0.3% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | 12.8% | 6.5% |
| Operating margin | 8.7% | 2.0% |
| Net margin | 5.9% | 0.9% |
| FCF margin | 3.5% | 2.2% |
| Return on capital | 20.1% | 2.8% |
| Return on equity | 27.3% | 2.6% |
| Balance sheet | ||
| Net debt | $2.5B | $7.6B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 1.2x | 3.1x |
| Dividends and buybacks | $2.0B | $697M |
| Valuation & quality | ||
| P/E | 12.2x | 35.0x |
| Piotroski F-score | 4 | 4 |
FY16
PPC $9.9B
TSN $36.9B
FY17
PPC $10.8B
TSN $38.3B
FY18
PPC $10.9B
TSN $40.1B
FY19
PPC $11.4B
TSN $42.4B
FY20
PPC $12.1B
TSN $43.2B
FY21
PPC $14.8B
TSN $47.0B
FY22
PPC $17.5B
TSN $53.3B
FY23
PPC $17.4B
TSN $52.9B
FY24
PPC $17.9B
TSN $53.3B
FY25
PPC $18.5B
TSN $54.4B
PPC
TSN
FY16
PPC 8.0%
TSN 7.7%
FY17
PPC 10.0%
TSN 7.6%
FY18
PPC 4.5%
TSN 7.4%
FY19
PPC 6.1%
TSN 6.5%
FY20
PPC 2.0%
TSN 7.0%
FY21
PPC 1.4%
TSN 9.3%
FY22
PPC 6.7%
TSN 8.3%
FY23
PPC 3.0%
TSN −0.8%
FY24
PPC 8.4%
TSN 2.6%
FY25
PPC 8.7%
TSN 2.0%
PPC
TSN
FY16
PPC $454M
TSN $2.0B
FY17
PPC $461M
TSN $1.5B
FY18
PPC $143M
TSN $1.8B
FY19
PPC $318M
TSN $1.3B
FY20
PPC $369M
TSN $2.7B
FY21
PPC −$55.2M
TSN $2.6B
FY22
PPC $183M
TSN $800M
FY23
PPC $120M
TSN −$187M
FY24
PPC $1.5B
TSN $1.5B
FY25
PPC $653M
TSN $1.2B
PPC
TSN
FY16
PPC 16.2%
TSN 12.4%
FY17
PPC 21.8%
TSN 11.0%
FY18
PPC 9.2%
TSN 13.9%
FY19
PPC 11.8%
TSN 9.7%
FY20
PPC 3.2%
TSN 9.2%
FY21
PPC 2.2%
TSN 13.3%
FY22
PPC 15.5%
TSN 13.3%
FY23
PPC 7.9%
TSN −1.2%
FY24
PPC 20.3%
TSN 3.9%
FY25
PPC 20.1%
TSN 2.8%
PPC
TSN
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