Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (PPC)

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Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2017-10-05); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2017-11-06) (its current reports).

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Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $9.9 billion in fiscal 2016 to $18 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7.2% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 1% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-28, Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 49% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-28, Pilgrim's Pride Corporation earned about 29 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 23 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 64 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's standing among 42 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $18 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 17% by size; a net margin of 5.9% ranks in the top 32%; revenue growth of 1.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 49% (its annual reports).

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Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Sandri, Fabio (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-01-07, 5.8 years (top 39% of its family); the 12 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.9 years (top 14%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 12 people in charge now (top 13%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $640 million against debt of $3.1 billion leaves -23.7% of its assets as net cash, bottom 25% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.5% of revenue (bottom 42%); a gross margin of 12.7% (bottom 23%); research spending of 0.1% of revenue (bottom 12%) (its annual report).

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Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 1.9% a year over the last three filed years against 7.2% over all 10, slowing (bottom 30% of its family); the newest year grew 3.5% (top 39%); research spending grew 12.7% a year (top 23%); capital spending grew 13.8% a year (top 20%) (its annual reports). Pilgrim's Pride Corporation reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: US at $11 billion (60%), Europe at $5.4 billion (29%), Mexico at $2.1 billion (12%); 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $18 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 2.3% above the $18 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 37% of its family); net income of $1.1 billion against a prior three-year average of $718 million (top 19%); a net margin of 5.9% against 4.1% before (top 27%) (its annual reports).