Morningstar | Outlook Intact After Tyson Reports Earnings Consistent With Reduced Guidance; Shares Attractive
In the wake of third-quarter results that were consistent with its fiscal 2018 guidance reduction on July 30, we do not expect to materially alter our $67 fair value estimate for no-moat Tyson. We still expect short-term challenges in the firm's chicken and pork units to yield to our long-term targets for the firm, calling for low-single-digit top-line growth against an 8% adjusted operating margin (versus 9% in 2017), on average, over the next decade.Year to date, Tyson reported 7% sales growth and an adjusted operating margin of 8%, near our 6% and 8% full-year marks. The firm maintained its fiscal 2018 sales expectation of $40 billion to $41 billion and announced that it expects $42 billion in fiscal 2019, above our $41 billion target. Additionally, management reiterated its updated EPS outlook of $5.70-$6, reduced last week from $6.55 to $6.70 (we expect $5.84).
We continue to expect near-term challenges to be concentrated in Tyson's chicken and pork segments. Management cited lower competing protein prices as a headwind for chicken as cattle herd sizes normalize (leading to attractively priced ground beef) and trade feuds weigh on pork. Longer term, however, we expect chicken will take share from other protein sources due to its attractive cost and health profile, underpinning our long-term segment growth expectation of just under 4% for a unit that accounted for around 30% of fiscal 2017 sales.
Tyson's beef unit (just under 40% of fiscal 2017 sales) continued its strong run, with 5% year-to-date growth against a 6% adjusted operating margin compared with 5% in the same period of fiscal 2017. Management expects the unit to remain strong, forecasting a fiscal 2018 profitability mark above 6% and a similar level in fiscal 2019. While our near-term margin targets are similar, just below 6% in fiscal 2018 and 2019, we believe the unit's results will normalize in the low single digits as consumers continue their shift to healthier, lower-cost poultry.
Tyson Foods is a food company. The company's operations consist of breeding stock, contract farmers, feed production, processing, further-processing, marketing and transportation of chicken and related allied products, including animal and pet food ingredients. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cobb-Vantress, Inc., the company is engaged as poultry breeding stock supplier. The company also processes live fed cattle and hogs and fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, case-ready beef and pork and fully-cooked meats. The company produces a range of fresh, frozen and refrigerated food products. The company operates in Beef, Pork, Chicken and Prepared Foods segments.
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