Tyson Foods Reports Fourth Quarter And Fiscal 2025 Results

Achieves Year-Over-Year Growth in Sales, Adjusted Operating Income and Adjusted EPS

SPRINGDALE, Ark., Nov. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN), one of the world’s largest food companies and a recognized leader in protein with leading brands including Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, ibp and State Fair, reported the following results:

_{¹ The Company reports its financial results in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). As used in this table and throughout this earnings release, adjusted operating income (loss) and adjusted net income per share attributable to Tyson (Adjusted EPS) are non-GAAP financial measures. Refer to the end of this release for an explanation and reconciliation of these and other non-GAAP financial measures used in this release to comparable GAAP measures.}

Fiscal 2025 Highlights

• Sales of $54,441 million, up 2.1% from prior year; Sales up 3.3% excluding impact of $653 million increase in legal contingency accruals, which was recognized as a reduction to Sales

• GAAP operating income of $1,098 million, down 22% from prior year

• Adjusted operating income of $2,287 million, up 26% from prior year

• GAAP EPS of $1.33, down 41% from prior year

• Adjusted EPS of $4.12, up 33% from prior year

• Total Company GAAP operating margin of 2.0%

• Total Company adjusted operating margin (non-GAAP) of 4.1%

• Cash provided by operating activities of $2,155 million, down $435 million from prior year

• Free cash flow (non-GAAP) of $1,177 million, down $281 million from prior year

• Repurchased 3.5 million shares for $196 million

• Reduced total debt $957 million

• Liquidity of $3.7 billion as of September 27, 2025
  
  

Fourth Quarter Highlights

• Sales of $13,860 million, up 2.2% from prior year; Sales up 4.8% excluding impact of $355 million increase in legal contingency accruals, which was recognized as a reduction to Sales

• GAAP operating income of $158 million, down 70% from prior year

• Adjusted operating income of $608 million, up 19% from prior year

• GAAP EPS of $0.13, down 87% from prior year

• Adjusted EPS of $1.15, up 25% from prior year

• Total Company GAAP operating margin of 1.1%

• Total Company adjusted operating margin (non-GAAP) of 4.3%
  
  

"We delivered year-over-year growth in sales, adjusted operating income and adjusted earnings per share, reflecting the strength of our multi-protein, multi-channel portfolio," said Donnie King, President and CEO of Tyson Foods. "This fiscal year's progress demonstrates our commitment to operational excellence while meeting the evolving needs of our customers and consumers. As a world-class food company and recognized leader in protein, we remain focused on continuously improving the controllable aspects of our business and delivering shareholder value."

SEGMENT RESULTS (in millions)

ADJUSTED SEGMENT RESULTS (in millions)

_{² Average Price Change and Adjusted Operating Margin (Non-GAAP) for the Beef and Pork segments and Total Company for the three months ended September 27, 2025 exclude the impact of $225 million, $130 million, and $355 million, respectively, of legal contingency accruals recognized as a reduction to Sales. Average Price Change and Adjusted Operating Margin (Non-GAAP) for the Beef and Pork segments and Total Company for the twelve months ended September 27, 2025 exclude the impact of $318 million, $380 million, and $698 million, respectively, of legal contingency accruals recognized as reductions to Sales. Average Price Change and Adjusted Operating Margin (Non-GAAP) for the Pork segment and Total Company for the twelve months ended September 28, 2024 exclude the impact of $45 million of legal contingency accruals recognized as reductions to Sales.}

OUTLOOK
As of the most recently published data for fiscal 2026, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) indicates domestic protein production (beef, pork, chicken and turkey) will increase approximately 1% compared to fiscal 2025 levels. The following is a summary of the updated outlook for each of our segments, as well as an outlook for revenue, capital expenditures, net interest expense, liquidity, free cash flow, tax rate and dividends for fiscal 2026. Certain of the outlook numbers include adjusted operating income (loss) (a non-GAAP metric) for each segment. As our accounting cycle results in a 53-week year in fiscal 2026 as compared to a 52-week year in fiscal 2025, the fiscal 2026 outlook is based on a comparable 52-week year. The Company is not able to reconcile its full-year fiscal 2026 projected adjusted results to its fiscal 2026 projected GAAP results because certain information necessary to calculate such measures on a GAAP basis is unavailable or dependent on the timing of future events outside of our control. Therefore, because of the uncertainty and variability of the nature of and the amount of any potential applicable future adjustments, which could be significant, the Company is unable to provide a reconciliation for these forward-looking non-GAAP measures without unreasonable effort. Adjusted operating income (loss) should not be considered a substitute for operating income (loss) or any other measures of financial performance reported in accordance with GAAP. Investors should rely primarily on the Company’s GAAP results and use non-GAAP financial measures only supplementally in making investment decisions.

Beef
USDA projects domestic production will decrease approximately 2% in fiscal 2026 as compared to fiscal 2025. We anticipate adjusted operating loss between $(600) million to $(400) million in fiscal 2026.

Pork
USDA projects domestic production will increase approximately 3% in fiscal 2026 as compared to fiscal 2025. We anticipate adjusted operating income of $150 million to $250 million in fiscal 2026.

Chicken
USDA projects chicken production will increase approximately 1% in fiscal 2026 as compared to fiscal 2025. We anticipate adjusted operating income of $1,250 million to $1,500 million for fiscal 2026.

Prepared Foods
We anticipate adjusted operating income of $950 million to $1,050 million in fiscal 2026.

International/Other
We anticipate similar results from our foreign operations in fiscal 2026 on an adjusted basis.

Total Company
We anticipate total company adjusted operating income of $2.1 billion to $2.3 billion for fiscal 2026.

Revenue
We expect sales to be up 2% to 4% in fiscal 2026 as compared to fiscal 2025.

Capital Expenditures
We expect capital expenditures between $700 million to $1.0 billion for fiscal 2026. Capital expenditures include investments in profit improvement projects as well as projects for maintenance and repair.

Net Interest Expense
We expect net interest expense to approximate $390 million for fiscal 2026.

Liquidity
We expect total liquidity, which was $3.7 billion as of September 27, 2025, to remain above our minimum liquidity target of $1.0 billion.

Free Cash Flow
We expect free cash flow to be between $0.8 billion and $1.3 billion for fiscal 2026.

Tax Rate
We currently expect our adjusted effective tax rate to approximate 25% for fiscal 2026.

Dividends
Effective November 7, 2025, the Board of Directors increased the quarterly dividend previously declared on August 7, 2025, to $0.51 per share on our Class A common stock and $0.459 per share on our Class B common stock. The increased quarterly dividend is payable on December 15, 2025, to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 1, 2025. The Board also declared on November 7, 2025 a quarterly dividend of $0.51 per share on our Class A common stock and $0.459 per share on our Class B common stock, payable on March 13, 2026, to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 27, 2026. We anticipate the remaining quarterly dividends in fiscal 2026 will be $0.51 and $0.459 per share of our Class A and Class B common stock, respectively. This results in an annual dividend rate in fiscal 2026 of $2.04 for Class A shares and $1.836 for Class B shares, or a 2% increase compared to the fiscal 2025 annual dividend rate.

_{³ The effective tax rate for the twelve months ended September 27, 2025 is impacted by a $343 million goodwill impairment as the impairment charge is non-deductible for income tax purposes.}

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Adjusted Operating Income (Loss), Adjusted Income before Income Taxes, Adjusted Income Tax Expense, Adjusted Net Income Attributable to Tyson and Adjusted EPS, EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, net debt to EBITDA, net debt to Adjusted EBITDA and Free Cash Flow are presented as supplemental financial measures in the evaluation of our business that are not required by, or presented in accordance with GAAP. The non-GAAP financial measures are tools intended to assist our management and investors in comparing our performance on a consistent basis for purposes of business decision-making by removing the impact of certain items that management believes do not directly reflect our core operations on an ongoing basis. These non-GAAP measures should not be a substitute for their comparable GAAP financial measures. Investors should rely primarily on our GAAP results and use non-GAAP financial measures only supplementally in making investment decisions. We believe the presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures helps management and investors to assess our operating performance from period to period, including our ability to generate earnings sufficient to service our debt, enhances understanding of our financial performance and highlights operational trends. These measures are widely used by investors and rating agencies in the valuation, comparison, rating and investment recommendations of companies. Our calculation of non-GAAP measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies and other companies may not define these non-GAAP financial measures in the same way, which may limit their usefulness of comparative measures.

Definitions

EBITDA is defined as net income before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization. Net debt to EBITDA (Adjusted EBITDA) represents the ratio of our debt, net of cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, to EBITDA (and to Adjusted EBITDA). EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, net debt to EBITDA and net debt to Adjusted EBITDA are presented as supplemental financial measurements in the evaluation of our business.

Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Operating Income (Loss), Adjusted Income before Income Taxes, Adjusted Income Tax Expense, Adjusted Net Income Attributable to Tyson and Adjusted EPS are defined as EBITDA, Operating Income (Loss), Income before Income Taxes, Income Tax Expense, Net Income Attributable to Tyson and diluted earnings per share, respectively, excluding the impacts of any items that management believes do not directly reflect our core operations on an ongoing basis.

Free Cash Flow is defined as Cash Provided by Operating Activities minus payments for Property, Plant and Equipment.

TYSON FOODS, INC.
GAAP Results to Non-GAAP Results Reconciliations
(In millions, except per share data)
(Unaudited)

_{⁴ Excludes the amortization of debt issuance and debt discount expense of $11 million and $12 million for the twelve months ended September 27, 2025 and September 28, 2024, respectively, as it is included in interest expense.
⁵ Relates to a fire at a Chicken production facility in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2021 and a fire at our production facility in the Netherlands in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 that we subsequently decided to sell.
⁶ Includes the Network Optimization Plan that commenced in fiscal 2025 and the 2022 Program which completed in fiscal 2024.
⁷ The three and twelve months ended September 27, 2025 include a $40 million charge related to the 2015 sale of our Mexico operation.
⁸ Includes China plant relocation remuneration and related EPS impact, net of $1 million associated with Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests, for the twelve months ended September 27, 2025.
⁹ Goodwill impairment is non-deductible for income tax purposes.
¹⁰ Removal of accelerated depreciation of $39 million related to network optimization plan charges for the twelve months ended September 27, 2025 and $127 million related to plant closures and disposals for the twelve months ended September 28, 2024 as they are already included in depreciation expense. Removal of accelerated amortization of $23 million and $2 million related to brand discontinuation for the twelve months ended September 27, 2025 and September 28, 2024, respectively, as they are already included in amortization expense.}

About Tyson Foods, Inc.
Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) is a world-class food company and recognized leader in protein. Founded in 1935 by John W. Tyson, it has grown under four generations of family leadership. The Company is unified by this purpose: Tyson Foods. We Feed the World Like Family™ and has a broad portfolio of iconic products and brands including Tyson®, Jimmy Dean®, Hillshire Farm®, Ball Park®, Wright®, State Fair®, Aidells® and ibp®. Tyson Foods is dedicated to bringing high-quality food to every table in the world, safely, and affordably, now and for future generations. Headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas, the company had approximately 133,000 team members on September 27, 2025. Visit www.tysonfoods.com.

Conference Call Information and Other Selected Data
A conference call to discuss the Company's financial results will be held at 9 a.m. Eastern Monday, November 10, 2025. A link for the webcast of the conference call is available on the Tyson Investor Relations website at https://ir.tyson.com. The webcast also can be accessed by the following direct link: https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/176837355. For those who cannot participate at the scheduled time, a replay of the live webcast and the accompanying slides will be available at https://ir.tyson.com. A telephone replay will also be available until December 10, 2025, toll free at 1-877-344-7529, international toll 1-412-317-0088 or Canada toll free 855-669-9658. The replay access code is 2866305. Financial information, such as this news release, as well as other supplemental data, can be accessed from the Company's web site at https://ir.tyson.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
Certain information in this release constitutes forward-looking statements as contemplated by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, current views and estimates of our outlook for fiscal 2025, other future economic circumstances, industry conditions in domestic and international markets, our performance and financial results (e.g., debt levels, return on invested capital, value-added product growth, capital expenditures, tax rates, access to foreign markets and dividend policy). These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause our actual results and experiences to differ materially from anticipated results and expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements. We wish to caution readers not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement and speak only as of the date made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Among the factors that may cause actual results and experiences to differ from anticipated results and expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are the following: (i) the effectiveness of financial excellence programs or operational optimization plans; (ii) access to, and inputs from, foreign markets together with foreign economic conditions, including currency fluctuations, import/export restrictions and foreign politics; (iii) global pandemics have had, and may in the future have, an adverse impact on our business and operations; (iv) cyber attacks, other cyber incidents, security breaches or other disruptions of our information technology systems; (v) risks associated with our failure to consummate favorable acquisition transactions or integrate certain acquisitions’ operations; (vi) the Tyson Limited Partnership’s ability to exercise significant control over the Company; (vii) fluctuations in the cost and availability of inputs and raw materials, such as live cattle, live swine, feed grains (including corn and soybean meal) and energy; (viii) market conditions for finished products, including competition from other global and domestic food processors, supply and pricing of competing products and alternative proteins and demand for alternative proteins; (ix) outbreak of a livestock disease (such as African swine fever (ASF), avian influenza (AI), New World screwworm or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)), which could have an adverse effect on livestock we own, the availability of livestock we purchase, consumer perception of certain protein products or our ability to conduct our operations; (x) changes in consumer preference and diets and our ability to identify and react to consumer trends; (xi) effectiveness of advertising and marketing programs; (xii) significant marketing plan changes by large customers or loss of one or more large customers; (xiii) our ability to leverage brand value propositions; (xiv) changes in availability and relative costs of labor and contract farmers and our ability to maintain good relationships with team members, labor unions, contract farmers and independent producers providing us livestock; (xv) issues related to food safety, including costs resulting from product recalls, regulatory compliance and any related claims or litigation; (xvi) compliance with and changes to regulations and laws (both domestic and foreign), including changes in accounting standards, tax laws, environmental laws, agricultural laws and occupational, health and safety laws; (xvii) the effect of climate change and any legal or regulatory response thereto; (xviii) adverse results from litigation; (xix) risks associated with leverage, including cost increases due to rising interest rates or changes in debt ratings or outlook; (xx) impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or indefinite life intangible assets; (xxi) our participation in a multiemployer pension plan; (xxii) volatility in capital markets or interest rates; (xxiii) risks associated with our commodity purchasing activities; (xxiv) the effect of, or changes in, general economic conditions; (xxv) impacts on our operations caused by factors and forces beyond our control, such as natural disasters, fire, bioterrorism, pandemics, armed conflicts or extreme weather; (xxvi) failure to maximize or assert our intellectual property rights; (xxvii) effects related to changes in tax rates, valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities, or tax laws and their interpretation; and (xxviii) the other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those included under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.