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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000091388-25-000083"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SFD"
cik: "0000091388"
company_name: "SMITHFIELD FOODS INC"
filed_at: "2025-10-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:06:29.917804+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Smithfield Q3 net sales $3.7B (+12.4% YoY); record operating profit $310M; raises FY adjusted EPS guidance

## Summary
- Diluted EPS $0.63 ($0.58 adjusted); Packaged Meats operating profit $226M (10.8% margin).
- Hog Production profit jumped 119.8% to $89M; Fresh Pork fell 63.8% to $10M.
- First nine months: net sales $11.3B (+10.9%), operating profit $892M, adjusted EPS $1.72.
- CEO expects higher FY adjusted operating profit; liquidity $3.07B, net debt/EBITDA 0.8x.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000091388-25-000083
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SFD
- cik: 0000091388
- company_name: SMITHFIELD FOODS INC
- filed_at: 2025-10-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91388/000009138825000083/0000091388-25-000083-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91388/000009138825000083/sfd-20251028.htm

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