Tyson Foods
Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) is a world-class food company and recognized leader in protein production. Founded in 1935, the company has evolved into a global enterprise with approximately 133,000 employees worldwide, including roughly 116,000 in the United States. The company maintains its corporate presence and… From the company’s description.
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What Tyson Foods does
In the company’s own words
Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) is a world-class food company and recognized leader in protein production. Founded in 1935, the company has evolved into a global enterprise with approximately 133,000 employees worldwide, including roughly 116,000 in the United States. The company maintains its corporate presence and investor relations at https://ir.tyson.com.
Tyson operates a diversified portfolio across four reportable business segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. The Beef segment processes live fed cattle and fabricates dressed beef carcasses into primal, sub-primal, and case-ready products. The Pork segment handles live market hog processing and fabrication into various cuts and case-ready offerings. The Chicken segment manages fully vertically-integrated operations from breeding stock through processing, including value-added products like breaded strips and nuggets. The Prepared Foods segment manufactures frozen and refrigerated products under iconic brands including Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, State Fair, Aidells, and Gallo Salame.
The company operates a fully vertically-integrated chicken production process and maintains Cobb-Vantress, a leading global poultry breeding stock supplier. Tyson's operations extend across approximately 140 countries and regions, with significant international presence in Canada, Central America, China, the European Union, Mexico, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. The company sold products internationally totaling $7.4 billion in fiscal 2025, with $4.8 billion representing export sales from United States facilities.
Tyson's competitive advantages include its national distribution system, vertically-integrated operations particularly in chicken, iconic brand portfolio, research and development capabilities including its Discovery Center in Springdale, Arkansas, and established relationships with major retailers and foodservice operators. The company serves grocery retailers, foodservice distributors, restaurant operators, warehouse clubs, military commissaries, and industrial food processors. Walmart represents a significant customer relationship, accounting for approximately a material percentage of consolidated sales across all segments.
The company maintains substantial operational infrastructure including processing facilities, feed mills, hatcheries, warehouses, and transportation systems. Tyson also operates Tyson New Ventures, LLC, a subsidiary focused on investing in breakthrough technologies and innovative protein sources to complement core business operations.
Company details
- Sector
- Consumer Staples
- Industry (SIC)
- Food Products
- Headquarters
- SPRINGDALE, AR
- Fiscal year end
- October
- CIK
- 100493
- SIC
- 2015
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Tyson Foods — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Tyson Foods · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · Tyson Foods’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Tyson Foods’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 9 issues of Tyson Foods’s debt, $1.23B at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 4.61%, maturing 2027 to 2048.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
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