Smithfield Foods Inc's Competitiveness
A competitive positioning analysis and financial ratio benchmarking of Smithfield Foods Inc (SFD) against its publicly traded competitors: sales growth, net income, profitability, valuation and market share, plus each peer's market capitalization, revenue, income and employees. Free below: the top 5 peers. Subscriber access adds the full competitor list and CSV downloads.
Key Findings: Smithfield Foods Inc vs Its Competitors
- TTM: Trailing 12-month revenue of 15,472M vs -M combined for tracked competitors (100.0% combined share).
- Trending: Latest-quarter revenue run-rate is decelerating (-4.3% annualized vs trailing 12 months).
- Scale: Smithfield Foods Inc ranks #10 of 62 companies by market capitalization in the Food Processing industry, holding 2.5% of industry market cap.
- Peer revenue share: Smithfield Foods Inc accounted for 100.0% of combined revenue among its tracked peer group, up from 100.0% a year earlier.
Every figure above is sourced and cited in detail further down this page (Market Structure, Profitability & Cost Structure, Productivity vs Peers).
SFD Sales vs. its Competitors, Q2 2026
Smithfield Foods Inc generated 100.00 % of the combined sales of its peer group, up from 100.00 % a year earlier.
For context: the Food Processing industry grew revenue 12.8% year over year, combined, vs -2.3% for Smithfield Foods Inc. Smithfield Foods Inc's share of combined industry revenue moved from 3.28% to 2.84%, a loss of 0.44 percentage points.
Smithfield Foods Inc's Competitor Quality Breadth
Share of each group, trailing 12 months: profitable (net margin > 0), expanding (revenue growth > 0), growing faster than the industry's own median, and financially distressed (Piotroski F-Score of 2 or below).
| Entity | Profitable | Expanding | Above Industry Growth | Distressed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smithfield Foods Inc | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| High-Confidence Competitors (1) | ||||
| Similar-Size Competitors (9) | ||||
| Similar Growth & Profitability (8) | 100.00 % (8 of 8) | 100.00 % (8 of 8) | 75.00 % (6 of 8) | 33.30 % (2 of 6) |
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months. Altman Z-Score is not shown here: it is not populated in the underlying data for any company. Percentages are of companies in each group that report the relevant metric, not of the full group size.
SFD Stock Performance relative to its Competitors
SFD Stock Performance relative to High-Confidence Competitors
SFD Stock Performance relative to Similar-Size Competitors
SFD Stock Performance relative to Similar Growth & Profitability Competitors
Smithfield Foods Inc's Comment on Competition and Industry Peers
We believe that the principal competitive factors in the pork processing industry are price, product quality and innovation, product distribution and brand loyalty. Some of our competitors are more diversified than us, especially now that we have sold our beef and turkey operations. To the extent that their other operations generate profits, these more diversified competitors may be able to support their meat processing operations during periods of low or negative profitability.
Smithfield Foods Inc's Competitors Named by the Company
Competitive relationships identified from SEC filings and corroborating sources, each with a basis and confidence.| Competitor | Basis | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Beyond Meat Inc | Named by the company | 85% |
Filing basis, confidence, active dates and source counts for Smithfield Foods Inc's named competitors require a Commercial License.
Methodology: relationships are extracted from SEC filings (named-competitor disclosures) and corroborating sources. Named by the company = explicitly disclosed as a competitor; Inferred = derived from corroborating signals. Confidence reflects evidence strength.
Smithfield Foods Inc's Business Segment Mix vs Peers
Revenue by operating segment or division, as named and reported by each company. Segment names are the filer's own and are not standardized across companies. Do not assume a same-named or similarly-named segment is defined identically between two companies. Shares are of each company's own total revenue and are not required to sum to 100% (intersegment revenue, unallocated items).| Company | Largest Segment |
|---|---|
| Smithfield Foods Inc | Packaged Meats 56.55 % |
Source: operating segment revenue as reported in each company's SEC filings (10-K/10-Q), via the CSIMarket API, leaf-level reportable segments only (parent roll-up segments are excluded where sub-segments are separately disclosed).