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Company snapshot — Smithfield Foods, Inc. Common Stock

SFD in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Smithfield Foods processes hogs into packaged meats and fresh pork, and also raises the animals it processes. Its Packaged Meats arm turns fresh meat into bacon, sausage, hot dogs, deli meats and ready-to-eat foods sold under several brand names to retail and foodservice customers. Its Fresh Pork arm sells primal cuts such as bellies, hams and loins to retail, foodservice and export buyers including China, Mexico, Japan and South Korea. A Hog Production arm raises livestock on owned and contract farms and sells feed and transport services, while a smaller unit extracts heparin, a blood-thinning ingredient, from hog by-products and makes pork in Mexico. It is based in Smithfield, Virginia, and is a subsidiary of a UK holding company.
Where it sits in the stack
Smithfield carries no seat in our index and sits outside the build-out sleeves the diary tracks; it belongs to the Consumer Defensive sector, Packaged Foods industry, in the US universe.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group groups it with other scored Consumer Defensive names based in the US, among them Coca-Cola Consolidated, Costco, Sprouts Farmers Market and JBS; the market also names Tyson Foods as a comparable meat processor.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score, strongest on the valuation module and weakest on the momentum module, but holds no index seat and has not drawn a diary quote.
What the diary watches
Whether export demand for fresh pork, particularly from China, holds up, and whether the weak momentum reading against a stronger valuation reading persists or narrows.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. Common Stock (SFD) trades on US exchanges, classified under Consumer Defensive.

The Closelook company score reads 51/100 composite (momentum 19, quality 40, valuation 84) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for SFD, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Packaged Foods · US · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Packaged Foods · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against SFD on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 6.00%, quarterly · last 0.31 USD on 2026-08-13

Dividends and capital return

What SFD pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.19 USD per share · a 6.00% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +58.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.75 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.31 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-13
  • By calendar year 2025: 1.00 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.94 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-04-10
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 396 m USD 45% of earnings
  • Share count −0.1% in FY2025 9 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 396 m USD · 55% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Consumer staples in US: −0.7% week · −4.3% month · +0.1% quarter · −3.8% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLP.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Smithfield Foods, Inc. Common Stock (SFD)?

Smithfield Foods, Inc. Common Stock trades as SFD on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Consumer Defensive in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is SFD in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Smithfield Foods, Inc. Common Stock is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is Smithfield Foods, Inc. Common Stock's Closelook composite score?

51 out of 100, with momentum 19, quality 40 and valuation 84 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does SFD trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -15% vs the 50-day and -17.4% vs the 200-day average, 31.7% below the 52-week high and +1.1% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 9 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Smithfield Foods, Inc. Common Stock do?

Smithfield Foods processes hogs into packaged meats and fresh pork, and also raises the animals it processes. Its Packaged Meats arm turns fresh meat into bacon, sausage, hot dogs, deli meats and ready-to-eat foods sold under several brand names to retail and foodservice customers. Its Fresh Pork arm sells primal cuts such as bellies, hams and loins to retail, foodservice and export buyers including China, Mexico, Japan and South Korea. Closelook's peer group groups it with other scored Consumer Defensive names based in the US, among them Coca-Cola Consolidated, Costco, Sprouts Farmers Market and JBS; the market also names Tyson Foods as a comparable meat processor.

Where does Smithfield Foods, Inc. Common Stock sit in the AI build-out?

Smithfield carries no seat in our index and sits outside the build-out sleeves the diary tracks; it belongs to the Consumer Defensive sector, Packaged Foods industry, in the US universe. It carries a Closelook score, strongest on the valuation module and weakest on the momentum module, but holds no index seat and has not drawn a diary quote.

Does Smithfield Foods, Inc. Common Stock pay a dividend?

Smithfield Foods, Inc. Common Stock has paid 1.19 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 6.00% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.31 USD on 2026-08-13. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 396 m USD in dividends, 55% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 0.1% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for SFD, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Packaged Foods. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.