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Sysco

SYY on NYSE. Sysco sells food and related products to places preparing meals away from home. Market value $36.6bn.

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Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to June 2026.

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Cash yield
past 12 months to June 2026
5.2%fair

For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $5.22 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.

Price to profit
past 12 months to June 2026
15.8×full

You pay 15.8 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.

Return on capital
five annual reports to June 2026
17.3%five-year median

Each dollar kept in the business earns 17 cents a year. Above 10 is good.

Quality score: 65 of 100. Price score: 81 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$77.45 a share, 14% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $68.19 to $91.85.

Dividend: 2.8% a year

Paid every year for at least 5 years

Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

1.2
2.1
2.2
1.6
1.9
20222023202420252026
Revenue
$68.6bn$76.3bn$78.8bn$81.4bn$84.6bn
Operating margin
3.4%4.0%4.1%3.8%3.7%
Debt to equity
7.705.186.447.275.07
Shares outstanding
0.51bn0.50bn0.48bn0.48bn0.48bn

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positive5 of 5 years
  • Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
  • Financial strength (Piotroski)6 of 8 checks we could run
  • Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
  • Debt5.07× equity
  • Revenue growth, five yearsStrong, 10.5% a year
  • Buying back its own sharesYes, 5% fewer since 2022

The quarter to June 2026

How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

  • Sales: $22.1 billion last quarter, up 5% on a year ago.
  • Profit: $551 million, up 4% on a year ago.
  • It keeps 4 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, about the same as a year earlier.
  • Spare cash over the past 12 months: $1.9 billion, up from $1.6 billion.
  • Debt is $11.7 billion more than cash, down from $12.2 billion a year ago.
  • Sales grew on a year ago in each of the last 4 quarters.
Sales by quarter
Sales by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$20.5bn
December 2024$20.2bn
March 2025$19.6bn
June 2025$21.1bn
September 2025$21.1bn
December 2025$20.8bn
March 2026$20.5bn
June 2026$22.1bn
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$490m
December 2024$406m
March 2025$401m
June 2025$531m
September 2025$476m
December 2025$389m
March 2026$340m
June 2026$551m

From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.

Dates

Next results (estimated)
3 November 2026
Last annual report (10-K)
21 August 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
29 July 2026

Who owns it

22 long-term investors we follow own it, down from 23 last quarter. 1,633 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26

Sold out this quarter

Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

3 investors own more than 5%.

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

In the last 12 months, 1 insider bought $1m of shares on the open market. 2 sold $2m, $2m of it under preset trading plans.

  • Phillips Ronald L
    EVP and CHRO
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    14 September 2026
    Shares
    57
    Price
    $84.32
    Value
    $4,806
  • Phillips Ronald L
    EVP and CHRO
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    11 September 2026
    Shares
    960
    Price
    $83.00
    Value
    $79,680
  • Phillips Ronald L
    EVP and CHRO
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    24 August 2026
    Shares
    506
    Price
    $84.09
    Value
    $42,550
  • Phillips Ronald L
    EVP and CHRO
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    21 August 2026
    Shares
    7,350
    Price
    $83.61
    Value
    $614,534
  • Phillips Ronald L
    EVP and CHRO
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    11 August 2026
    Shares
    367
    Price
    $83.39
    Value
    $30,604
  • Phillips Ronald L
    EVP and CHRO
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    10 August 2026
    Shares
    6,285
    Price
    $83.94
    Value
    $527,563
  • Hinshaw John M
    Director
    Bought
    Date
    26 May 2026
    Shares
    13,304
    Price
    $75.17
    Value
    $1m
  • Talton Sheila
    Director
    Sold
    Date
    2 February 2026
    Shares
    2,801
    Price
    $82.99
    Value
    $232,455
  • Phillips Ronald L
    EVP and CHRO
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    27 January 2026
    Shares
    5,601
    Price
    $81.00
    Value
    $453,681

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

What could go wrong

  • It carries a lot of debt: 5.1× its equity.

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The deep dive

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  • The three things that would make this a mistake
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