Forensic Analysis · Consumer Staples / Food & Beverage · as of Aug 11, 2026

Tyson Foods, Inc. (TSN)

A forensic read on Tyson Foods, Inc. 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

3.6

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

44.3

P / E (ttm)

2.6%

ROE

$20.2B

Market cap

3.48%

Dividend yield

2.1%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Tyson Foods, Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 3.6, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

2.4%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 2.4% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 11% — well below its ~8% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

$1.1B

FY2023–FY2025

Goodwill impairments. Took $1.1B of goodwill writedowns across 2 years (FY2023 ($781M), FY2025 ($343M)) — about 180% of net income over the span. A large writedown means an acquisition turned out worth far less than was paid — a real mark against M&A discipline.

-19%

FY2023→FY2024

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~19% in FY2024 (from FY2023). It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$54.44B

Revenue Growth YoY+2.1%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+0.7%

Net Margin0.9%

Free Cash Flow$1.18B

Return on Equity2.6%

Debt / Equity0.49x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.