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Smithfield Foods

SFDNasdaqPackaged Foods & MeatsGlen Allen, US-VA, USMid capWebsite ↗
  • Russell 1000

What Smithfield Foods 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 28, 2026: $15.5 billion, up 4.2% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 28, 2026: $0.35 billion, up 2.9% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (August 11, 2026): sentiment 0.20 on a −1 to +1 scale (mixed), confidence 0.80 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Guidance in the last 90 days: 0 outlook figures raised, 4 lowered, 2 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
  • Latest annual report (filed March 24, 2026): 1 risk factor added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q2 2026: $4.4 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 283 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+39 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F

Risk events (12 months): 3 — latest OSHA inspection, Jul 15, 2026 →

Company Posture covers S&P 500 companies.

No bond term sheets or tagged debt on file for Smithfield Foods 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

Smithfield Foods: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$15.5BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Smithfield Foods: 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 Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Smithfield Foods: 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

Smithfield Foods: interest coverage

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

38.1Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Smithfield Foods: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

−4.0Data 22 days ago
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
Business

Smithfield Foods: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.20Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
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Smithfield Foods: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.80Data to Aug 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Smithfield Foods: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

1.0Data to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Smithfield Foods: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

0.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

Smithfield Foods: insider net buying

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

−$4.4MData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Smithfield Foods: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

283.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

In the news

Headlines that name Smithfield Foods, with the publisher and a link. The tone is read from each headline’s own words, never from a summary of the article.

30 days
1 headlines
0% positive · 100% negative
90 days
1 headlines
0% positive · 100% negative

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 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.2 million
  2. Oct 16, 20268-K
  3. Sep 3, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  4. Aug 18, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  5. Jul 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  6. Jul 15, 2026Risk event
  7. Jun 10, 2026Lobbying
  8. Jun 3, 20268-K
  9. May 21, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  10. Apr 28, 2026Patent
  11. Apr 10, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP)first_quarter 2026 · $0.3 million
  12. Mar 24, 202610-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 0 removed
  13. Mar 11, 2026Risk event
  14. Mar 11, 2026Risk event
  15. Jan 21, 20268-K
  16. Jan 18, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP)fourth_quarter 2025 · $0.3 million
  17. Sep 3, 2025S-1
  18. Jul 24, 20258-K
  19. Jul 24, 2025Risk event
  20. Jun 27, 2025Risk event
  21. Jun 5, 20258-K
  22. Apr 18, 20258-K
  23. Mar 25, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)42 risk factors added, 1 removed
  24. Mar 7, 20258-K
  25. Feb 12, 20258-K
  26. Feb 12, 20258-K
  27. Feb 6, 2025Risk event
  28. Jan 6, 2025S-1
  29. Oct 28, 2024Risk event
  30. Jun 20, 2023Patent
  31. Feb 7, 2023Patent
  32. Mar 29, 201610-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 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
General Mills GIS$18.3B$1.6BAug 30, 2026
Pilgrim's Pride PPC$18.4B$0.8BJun 28, 2026
Hershey Company (The) HSY$12.2B$2.2BJun 28, 2026
Hormel Foods HRL$12.2B$0.8BJul 26, 2026
Conagra Brands CAG$11.2B$0.9BAug 30, 2026
Campbell Soup Company CPB$9.7B$0.7BAug 2, 2026
Kraft Heinz KHC$24.9B$3.8BJun 27, 2026
J.M. Smucker Company (The) SJM$9.2B$1.6BJul 31, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
91388
Wikidata
Q1477575
Ultimate parent (GLEIF)
WH Group Limited

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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