Pilgrim's Pride Corporation

PPC Consumer Defensive Packaged Foods

Pilgrim's Pride Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $18.5 billion, up 3.46% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
−2.23%
EPS
−66.0%
Free cash flow
−101.2%
Total debt
+10.1%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

28.70 0.31 −1.07%
Market cap
$6.8B
P/E
21.3×
Fwd P/E
20.3×
Dividend yield
0.00%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
3.60
Beneish M
−2.40
Dividend safety
16/100

Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (PPC) Debt to equity

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Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 was 0.9×, up 0.0× from fiscal 2025 (0.8×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.7× (fiscal 2016) to 1.4× (fiscal 2017); the current reading is higher than 36% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 0.2× and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 0.8× 11.09%
FY2024 0.8× (24.53%)
FY2023 1.0× (10.71%)
FY2022 1.1× (9.96%)
FY2021 1.2× 40.32%
FY2020 0.9× (2.45%)
FY2019 0.9× (21.16%)
FY2018 1.2× (20.37%)
FY2017 1.4× 113.67%
FY2016 0.7× (13.35%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Sep 2026 0.9× 15.17%
Jun 2026 0.8× (8.22%)
Mar 2026 0.8× (1.06%)
Dec 2025 0.8× (3.70%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.7× High 1.4×
Ten-year median 0.9×
Current reading's percentile 36

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 0.3×
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation compare 0.4×
INGR Ingredion Incorporated compare 0.4×
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 0.7×
PPC Pilgrim's Pride Corporation 0.9×
CAG Conagra Brands compare 1.2×
CPB The Campbell's Company compare 1.6×
LW Lamb Weston compare 2.2×
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare 3.4×
Packaged Foods industry median 0.2×
Consumer Defensive sector median 0.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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