Report
Zain Akbari, CFA
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Soft Fourth Quarter, Management Change Concerning, but Tyson’s Long-Term Outlook Intact

We do not plan to make a large change to our $55 per share valuation for no-moat Tyson after it reported soft fourth-quarter earnings. In fiscal 2016, Tyson posted a 9.2% adjusted sales decline alongside a 7.7% adjusted operating margin, slightly lagging our 8.9% and 7.8% expectations, respectively. We had been more pessimistic than prevailing sentiment about Tyson’s long-term margin prospects as protein prices normalize and believed pre-announcement trading levels priced the stock to perfection...
Underlying
Tyson Foods Inc. Class A

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.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Zain Akbari, CFA

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