PPCPilgrim's Pride Corporation
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.9×) and margins widening.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Operating profit is falling even as sales grow, costs are outrunning the top line.
Efficiency-driven, thin margins turned over fast (the retail model). ROE 26% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is PPC?
Pilgrim's Pride Corporation earns 12% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 2.8 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 5.0%
Operating margin · Packaged Foods median 7.6% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.91×
Cash conversion · 1.23× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +0.17%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 2.0% |
| FY2021 | 1.4% |
| FY2022 | 6.7% |
| FY2023 | 3.0% |
| FY2024 | 8.4% |
| FY2025 | 8.7% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 9.6%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 5.0%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 3.0%
- Free cash flow margin
- 1.5%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $18.4B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $267M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $546M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.