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Company Dossier · Consumer Staples

Post Holdings

POSTNYSEPackaged Foods & MeatsJEFFERSON CITY, US-MO, USMid capWebsite ↗
  • Russell 1000
  • MidCap 400

What Post Holdings is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $8.41 billion, up 6.2% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.55 billion, up 28% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.44 billion, down 12% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to September 30, 2025: $0.71 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to September 30, 2025: $1.10 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (August 7, 2026): sentiment -0.20 on a −1 to +1 scale (negative), confidence 0.40 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Guidance in the last 90 days: 1 outlook figure raised, 0 lowered, 1 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
  • Latest annual report (filed November 21, 2025): 1 risk factor added, 12 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $32.3 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 414 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (−14 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 2 (1 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)

Risk events (12 months): 2 — latest OSHA inspection, Mar 3, 2026 →

Company Posture

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Credit

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No bond term sheets or tagged debt on file for Post Holdings yet.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

Business

Post Holdings: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$0.55BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Post Holdings: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Post Holdings: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$8.4BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Post Holdings: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$0.71BData to Sep 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Post Holdings: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Sep 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Post Holdings: debt maturity schedule, latest annual report

Scheduled repayments of long-term debt principal by year from the fiscal year end, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Sep 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Post Holdings: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Post Holdings: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

1.9Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Post Holdings: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

1.0Data 23 days ago
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
Business

Post Holdings: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

−0.20Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Post Holdings: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.40Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Post Holdings: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

1.0Data to Nov 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Post Holdings: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

2.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

Post Holdings: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$32.3MData 23 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Post Holdings: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

414.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 16, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  2. Oct 6, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: METHOD FOR PROVIDING PROTEINACEOUS COMPOSITIONUS 12751468
  3. Aug 7, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  4. May 7, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  5. Mar 3, 2026Risk event
    OSHA referral inspection: MICHAEL FOODS, INCOSHA
  6. Feb 5, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  7. Feb 5, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  8. Feb 4, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  9. Nov 25, 2025Risk event
    OSHA referral inspection: MICHAEL FOODS, INCOSHA
  10. Nov 21, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  11. Nov 21, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 12 removed
  12. Nov 20, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  13. Aug 7, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  14. Jun 9, 20258-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  15. Apr 11, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  16. Apr 9, 20258-K
    Exit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
  17. Apr 2, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  18. Feb 4, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  19. Nov 18, 20248-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  20. Nov 15, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 1 removed
  21. Nov 14, 20248-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  22. Jul 2, 2024Patent
    Patent granted: METHODS OF EGG YOLK FRACTIONATIONUS 12022847
  23. Jun 25, 2024Patent
    Patent granted: CRISPED PROTEINACEOUS FOOD PRODUCTUS 12016351
  24. Jun 18, 2024Patent
    Patent granted: BREAKFAST FLAKES WITH HIGH PROTEIN CONTENTUS 12011023
  25. Mar 26, 2024Patent
    Patent granted: Method for providing a proteinaceous composition without pH adjustmentUS 11937618
  26. Nov 17, 202310-K
    Annual report (10-K)5 risk factors added, 2 removed

Peers

Companies in the same industry in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
J.M. Smucker Company (The) SJM$9.2B$1.6BJul 31, 2026
McCormick & Company MKC$7.7B—Aug 31, 2026
Campbell Soup Company CPB$9.7B$0.7BAug 2, 2026
Lamb Weston LW$6.6B$0.4BAug 30, 2026
Conagra Brands CAG$11.2B$0.9BAug 30, 2026
Hormel Foods HRL$12.2B$0.8BJul 26, 2026
Hershey Company (The) HSY$12.2B$2.2BJun 28, 2026
Smithfield Foods SFD$15.5B—Jun 28, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
1530950
LEI
JM1I5YUAURL6DC8N1468
Wikidata
Q27988145

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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