SFDSmithfield Foods, Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though margins widening.
Positive operating leverage, operating profit is growing faster than sales, so margins widen as the business scales.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 14% = margin × turnover × leverage.
All 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 SFD?
Smithfield Foods, Inc. earns 14% 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% · 4.8 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 8.6%
Operating margin · Packaged Foods median 7.6% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- +0.51%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
- Gross margin
- 13%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2014 | 6.2% |
| FY2015 | 5.5% |
| FY2022 | 6.9% |
| FY2023 | −0.38% |
| FY2024 | 7.9% |
| FY2025 | 8.3% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 13%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 8.6%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 6.8%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $15.5B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $1.06B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 14%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.