| Ticker Symbol: | TSN |
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| Exchange: | NYSE |
| Contact Info: | 2210 West Oaklawn Drive Springdale AR 72765 479 290-4000 |
| CEO/President: | Richard L. Bond |
| Industry: | Food - Meat Products / Standard Industry Code: 2015 |
| Description: | Tyson Foods, Inc. is the world's largest fully-integrated producer, processor and marketer of chicken and poultry-based food products. Tyson is a comprehensive supplier of value-added chicken products through food service, retail grocery stores, club stores and international distribution channels. Although its core business is chicken, in the United States Tyson is also the second largest maker of corn and flour tortillas under the Mexican Original brand and through its subsidiary Cobb Vantress, the top chicken breeding stock supplier. |
| Shares Outstanding: | 355,050 (000) | Market Value: | 2,492,450 ($000) |
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| Percentage of Inst.Shareholders: | 93.19% | Number of Inst.Shareholders: | 31.95% |
| Last Quarter Sales: | 7201.00 ($Mil.) | Last Quarter Net Income: | 48.00 ($Mil.) |
| Last Quarter EPS: | 0.14 | P/E Ratio: | 23 |
| Most Recent Earnings: | 0.15 on 11/10/08 | Earnings Per Share: | 0.24 |
| Most Recent Split: | Annual Dividend Rate: | .16 | |
| Most Recent Dividend: | 0.040 on 11/26/08 | Annual Dividend Yield: | 2.28% |


| TYSON FOODS INC | -65.70 | 6.03 | |
| SMITHFIELD FOOD | -82.10 | 6.37 | |
| SADIA S.A. | -73.00 | 3.71 | |
| HORMEL FOODS CP | -43.60 | 25.01 | |
| SANDERSON FARMS | -31.90 | 27.16 |
