SFD
Smithfield Foods Inc. Common StockConsumer Staples · ·
$25.08
▼ $0.15 (-0.6%)
Market Cap
$9.87B
Day Range
$24.93 - $25.62
52-Week Range
$21.08 - $29.81
Beta
—
Next Earnings
11.08.2026
SFD is a stock from the Consumer Defensive sector — Food, beverages, and household products — steady demand even in a recession, since these are essential consumer goods.
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This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer
Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%
🔍 Cross-Check
Overall Score
🟡 Mixed
Technical Trend
🔴 Bearish
Insiders
🔴 Bearish
✅ Why is the score relatively high?
- 🟢 Operating margin is stable or improving over time
- 🟢 Debt/equity: 0.29
- 🟢 Current ratio: 2.97
- 🟢 Price is above the 200-day average
- 🟢 P/E: 10.1
⚠️ What's concerning?
- 🔴 Price is below the 50-day average
- 🔴 MACD histogram is negative — falling momentum
- 🔴 -9.4% over the last 3 months relative to the index
- 🔴 Price is below the SAR point — downtrend
- 🔴 %K 0.4 — oversold
🚦 Quality & Risk Checks
📰 News Trend
Based on real financial news (Finnhub)Everyone's writing about Smithfield Foods Inc. Common Stock. News trend score: 56. Reason: 1 of the last 1 articles are positive, versus 0 negative.
News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer
📈 Technical Analysis
Based on the last 251 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.
🔴 Most indicators support a downtrend (1 bullish · 9 bearish · 1 neutral)
Conclusions
- 🔴Price vs. SMA 50 — Price is below the 50-day average
- 🟢Price vs. SMA 200 — Price is above the 200-day average
- 🔴MACD — MACD histogram is negative — falling momentum
- 🔴RSI — RSI 43.2 — weak/negative bias
- 🔴Stochastic — %K 0.4 — oversold
- 🟡ADX (trend strength) — ADX 22.1 — weak trend/choppy
- 🔴Relative strength vs. S&P 500 — -9.4% over the last 3 months relative to the index
- 🔴Bollinger Bands — Price is in the lower third of the Bollinger Bands (32%B) — weakness (chance of a recovery)
- 🔴ROC (rate of change) — ROC 12 days: -2.6%
- 🔴Parabolic SAR — Price is below the SAR point — downtrend
- 🔴CMF (money flow) — CMF 20 days: -0.05
Wyckoff Method Analysis
A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.
The stock is in a trading range, but the picture isn't yet clear enough on the likely direction.
Low confidence
$24.17
Range Bottom
$27.53
Range Top
50
Trading Days in Range
Evidence Behind This Read
- 🟡Trading range identified — The stock is trading in a 13.9% range (between 24.17 and 27.53) over 50 trading days.
- 🟡Trading volume in the range is relatively stable — There's no clear sign yet of supply/demand being exhausted within the range.
The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.
🎯 Trade Planning (M.A.E.E Framework)
Based on a mechanical trading method: market structure → value zone → ATR-based exit point. Not investment advice — a calculation tool only.
1️⃣ Market Structure
🟢 Uptrend
The price is above the 200-day average — per the market-structure method, this environment mainly favors looking for buying (Long) opportunities.
2️⃣ Value Zone
🟢 Price in value zone
The price is close to the 50-day moving average — per the method, this is a reasonable area to look for an entry, rather than chasing the price far from it.
3️⃣ Suggested Exit Point (ATR-based)
Method formula: Stop-loss = support minusone ATR margin — this way the stop adapts to the stock's actual volatility, rather than an arbitrary number.
Entry
$25.23
Stop-Loss
$23.53
Risk per Share
$1.70
Direction
Long
Profit Targets by Risk/Reward Ratio (R)
1:2 R
$28.62
1:3 R
$30.32
1:5 R
$33.71
💰 Position Size Calculator
A core principle of the method: never risk a fixed dollar amount — risk a fixed percentage of equity, and let the position size vary according to the risk per share.
Suggested Position Size
58 sh.
💰 Financial Health
Profitability
Gross Margin
13.5%
Operating Margin
8.3%
Net Margin
6.4%
EBITDA Margin
10.5%
Efficiency
ROE
14.5%
ROA
8.1%
ROIC
—
EPS
$2.52
Balance Sheet
Cash
$1.54B
Total Debt
$1.99B
Current Ratio
2.97
Debt/Equity
0.29
Conclusions
- 🔴Gross margin — Gross margin: 13.5% — weak
- 🔴Operating margin — Operating margin: 8.3% — weak
- 🟡Net margin — Net margin: 6.4% — reasonable
- 🟡Return on equity (ROE) — Return on equity (ROE): 14.5% — reasonable
- 🟡Return on assets (ROA) — Return on assets (ROA): 8.1% — reasonable
- 🟢Current ratio (liquidity) — Current ratio: 2.97
- 🟢Debt-to-equity — Debt/equity: 0.29
🚀 Growth
Revenue
Earnings per Share (EPS)
Net Income
Free Cash Flow (FCF)
אין נתונים היסטוריים זמינים.
Conclusions
- 🟡Revenue growth (last year) — Revenue growth (last year): 9.8%
- 🟡Earnings per share (EPS) growth — Earnings per share (EPS) growth: 0.0%
- 🟡Net income growth — Net income growth: 3.6%
💵 Dividends
Total dividend per share paid each year, over the last 5 years.
Annual Dividend per Share
| Ex-Dividend Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 14.5.2026 | $0.313 |
| 7.4.2026 | $0.313 |
| 13.11.2025 | $0.250 |
| 14.8.2025 | $0.250 |
| 15.5.2025 | $0.250 |
| 10.4.2025 | $0.250 |
💎 Fair Value (Valuation)
Not enough cash-flow data to calculate a DCF model for this stock.
Book Value per Share
$17.32
Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)
$9.98
Conclusions
- 🟡Tangible Net Asset Value (NAV) — NAV per share: $9.98
- 🟢P/E — P/E: 10.1
🕴️ Insider Trading
Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 0 purchases and 3 sales out of the last 25 filings.
| Name | Transaction Type | Date | Shares | Change | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France Steven | Open Market Sale | 16.6.2026 | 145,429 | -82,825 | $26.82 |
| Starling Raymond A | Open Market Sale | 12.6.2026 | 11,955 | -3,960 | $26.78 |
| France Steven | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 12.6.2026 | 228,254 | +82,825 | $23.76 |
| France Steven | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 12.6.2026 | 165,645 | -82,825 | — |
| Hall Mark L. | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 9.6.2026 | 213,304 | +78,579 | $20.00 |
| Hall Mark L. | Open Market Sale | 9.6.2026 | 134,725 | -78,579 | $26.36 |
| Hall Mark L. | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 9.6.2026 | 314,318 | -78,579 | — |
| QUELCH JOHN | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.6.2026 | 15,915 | +6,915 | — |
| Gallagher Marie T. | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.6.2026 | 15,915 | +6,915 | — |
| Starling Raymond A | Grant/Award from Employer | 2.6.2026 | 15,915 | +6,915 | — |
| Sutton Doug | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 150,366 | +81,446 | — |
| Sutton Doug | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 609,786 | +216,889 | — |
| Watts Keller D. | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 156,303 | +81,446 | — |
| Watts Keller D. | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 609,786 | +216,889 | — |
| Westerbeek Kraig A. | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 53,319 | +34,319 | — |
| Westerbeek Kraig A. | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 209,259 | +91,390 | — |
| France Steven | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 163,305 | +93,305 | — |
| France Steven | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 641,367 | +248,470 | — |
| Bennett Isham Jay | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 28,672 | +14,672 | — |
| Bennett Isham Jay | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 130,747 | +39,071 | — |
| Smith Charles Shane | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 266,190 | +146,190 | — |
| Smith Charles Shane | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 978,648 | +389,303 | — |
| Checkovich Tennille J. | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 22,676 | +10,676 | — |
| Checkovich Tennille J. | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 93,914 | +28,431 | — |
| He Hank Shenghua | Grant/Award from Employer | 10.3.2026 | 165,353 | +78,353 | — |
📉 Short Interest
Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.
Monthly Trend — Open Short Interest
5,789,222 shares short as of 2026-07-15 · vs. 6,236,099 on 2026-06-30
Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.
Weekly Trend — Daily Short-Sale Activity
73.3% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 54.1% the prior week
Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.
📰 News & Sentiment
Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 1 positive, 0 neutral, 0 negative out of the last 1 articles.
SeekingAlpha · 4.8.2026