as of Oct 26
TSN
DefensiveTYSON FOODS INC A
Tyson Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. The company processes live fed cattle and hogs; fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, as well as case ready beef and pork, and fully cooked meats; raises and processes chickens into fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products, including breaded chicken strips, nuggets, patties, and other ready-to-fix or fully cooked chicken parts; and supplies poultry breeding stock.
Close · 3M
-0.51%
Held by 1 AI ETF
Signal performance
Each tracked ETF's moves on this stock, grouped by fund. Returns are measured from the signal date to the latest close — hypothetical, no commissions or slippage.
AIEQ · Weight increase · 3d
weight 3.870% → 4.120% (+0.250 pp)·stock up 10.9% in the 30 days before
Oct 23·entry $56.70·now $56.70Fresh
AIEQ · Weight increase · 2d
weight 3.870% → 3.990% (+0.120 pp)·stock up 11.1% in the 30 days before
Oct 22·entry $57.07·now $56.70Fresh
AIEQ · Weight increase · 2d
weight 3.660% → 3.770% (+0.110 pp)·stock up 1.8% in the 30 days before
Oct 11·entry $53.57·now $56.70Drifting
AIEQ · Weight decrease · 2d
weight 3.720% → 3.660% (-0.060 pp)·stock down 1.1% in the 30 days before
Oct 7·entry $51.70·now $56.70
AIEQ · Sudden change · 1d
weight 4.080% → 3.650% (-0.430 pp)·stock down 8.3% in the 30 days before
Oct 1·entry $50.47·now $56.70
AIEQ · Weight decrease · 5d
weight 4.210% → 4.040% (-0.170 pp)·stock down 10.0% in the 30 days before
Sep 27·entry $50.95·now $56.70
AIEQ · Weight decrease · 4d
weight 4.210% → 4.070% (-0.140 pp)·stock down 10.0% in the 30 days before
Sep 25·entry $50.92·now $56.70
AIEQ · Weight decrease · 3d
weight 4.210% → 4.080% (-0.130 pp)·stock down 10.5% in the 30 days before
Sep 24·entry $51.14·now $56.70
AIEQ · Weight decrease · 2d
weight 4.210% → 4.090% (-0.120 pp)·stock down 11.2% in the 30 days before
Sep 23·entry $51.36·now $56.70
AIEQ · Weight decrease · 3d
weight 4.220% → 4.150% (-0.070 pp)·stock down 9.9% in the 30 days before
Sep 18·entry $52.77·now $56.70
AIEQ · Weight decrease · 2d
weight 4.220% → 4.180% (-0.040 pp)·stock down 9.9% in the 30 days before
Sep 17·entry $52.26·now $56.70
AIEQ · Sudden change · 1d
weight 4.340% → 4.000% (-0.340 pp)·stock down 12.2% in the 30 days before
Sep 4·entry $51.42·now $56.70
AIEQ · Weight increase · 2d
weight 0.050% → 4.340% (+4.290 pp)·stock down 11.1% in the 30 days before
Sep 3·entry $51.76·now $56.70Drifting
AIEQ · Sudden change · 1d
weight 0.050% → 4.260% (+4.210 pp)·stock down 7.6% in the 30 days before
Sep 1·entry $55.06·now $56.70
AIEQ · Weight decrease · 2d
weight 1.660% → 0.050% (-1.610 pp)·stock down 0.8% in the 30 days before
Aug 2·entry $59.61·now $56.70
AIEQ · Accumulation · 5d
weight 1.510% → 1.630% (+0.120 pp)·stock down 0.8% in the 30 days before
Jul 31·entry $57.96·now $56.70Fresh
AIEQ · Accumulation · 5d
weight 1.550% → 1.660% (+0.110 pp)·stock up 5.9% in the 30 days before
Jul 30·entry $60.65·now $56.70Fresh
AIEQ · Accumulation · 5d
weight 1.540% → 1.640% (+0.100 pp)·stock up 4.1% in the 30 days before
Jul 29·entry $61.04·now $56.70Fresh
AIEQ · Accumulation · 5d
weight 1.530% → 1.550% (+0.020 pp)·stock down 0.6% in the 30 days before
Jul 26·entry $60.71·now $56.70Fresh
Sell signals show what the stock did after the AI exited. A negative number means the AI's exit was well-timed.
Buffett-style framework
AIEQ has been accumulating Tyson, lifting its weight from 3.77% to 4.12% over three recent increases, which is a growing conviction bet. The framework declines to score the company because its earnings follow commodity protein cycles, so the AI's accumulation conflicts with a Too Hard read, even though the elevated 34x earnings multiple and 3% ROE would also make a value-oriented review skeptical.
- Circle of CompetenceTyson's earnings swing with commodity chicken, beef and pork spreads, feed costs, cattle cycles and disease outbreaks, so ten-year cash flows are too unpredictable to project with confidence.
- Economic Moat
- Management
- Financial Health
- Margin of Safety
Tyson sits outside a conservative circle of competence because its profits depend on volatile protein spreads and input costs rather than stable unit economics. Stages 2 to 5 are not scored, though the weak 3.18% ROE and high earnings multiple would not suggest an obvious margin of safety. This is an educational reading, not investment advice.
Educational interpretation generated by AI applying frameworks Warren Buffett documented in his shareholder letters and other public writings. Not a statement by Mr. Buffett or Berkshire Hathaway, and not investment advice.