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Forensic Analysis · Packaged Foods · as of Nov 9, 2026

Seneca Foods Corp (SENEA)

A forensic read on Seneca Foods Corp built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

D · Weak — demands caution
Forensic grade
Safe
Financial health
6.7
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
2
Forensic signals
6.8%
ROE
8.2%
Revenue growth

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Seneca Foods Corp earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 6.7, placing it in the Safe zone. 2 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by cash conversion.

What the filings flag

0.35×
FY2023–FY2025
Cash conversion. Over FY2023–FY2025, cumulative operating cash flow was 0.35× cumulative net income. Reported profit is not turning into cash. The shortfall is profit tied up in working capital rather than collected — the accrual and receivables lines below show where.Cash conversion: operating cash flow divided by net income, the share of profit that arrived as cash.
5.2%
FY2025
Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 5.2% in the latest fiscal year, against 1.3% in FY2023, having run between 1.3% and 7.1% across FY2023–FY2025 with no direction held. After-tax operating profit was $14M in FY2023 and $59M in FY2025, with operating income at 1.4% of revenue in FY2023, 7.4% in FY2024 and 4.9% in FY2025. The capital base behind it went from $1.1B in FY2023 to $1.1B in FY2025 (+7%), while the revenue it carried went from $1.5B to $1.6B. FY2023's operating profit carried a $4M restructuring charge that alone took about 0.3 points off that year's return, so about 0.3 of the 3.9-point rise across FY2023–FY2025 is that charge leaving the base year rather than the capital earning more.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$1.58B
Revenue Growth YoY+8.2%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+2.3%
Net Margin2.6%
Free Cash Flow$298.2M
Return on Equity6.8%
Debt / Equity0.74x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Nov 9, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.

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