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Tyson shares fall 4% following miss on earnings and lowered guidance
Tyson Foods (TSN $24.00 -0.93) reported second quarter earnings of $0.36 per share, excluding non-recurring items, $0.09 worse than the Capital IQ Consensus Estimate of $0.45, while revenues rose 1.8% year/year to $8.42 billion versus the $8.6 bln consensus. The company lowered guidance for fiscal year 2013 with revenues of approximately $34.5 bln from prior guidance of approximately $35 bln vs. $34.58 bln Capital IQ Consensus Estimate. Overall operating margin was 2.1%. "Our EPS for the quarter wasn't at the level we'd like, but on an adjusted basis, we're about where we were at this point last year," Smith said.
"I'm still confident our results for 2013 will be better than 2012." Q2 Segments: Chicken - Despite increased domestic and international production, total sales volumes decreased in the six months of fiscal 2013 due to reduced open-market meat purchases and mix of rendered product sales. Beef - Fed cattle supplies decreased which drove up average sales price and livestock cost. Sales volumes decreased due to a reduction in outside trim and tallow purchases. Outlook Details: "Our capital investment in our businesses will continue to help us to maintain strong operating results. In fiscal 2013, we expect overall domestic protein production (chicken, beef, pork and turkey) to increase ~1% from fiscal 2012 levels. The drought conditions in 2012 reduced grain supplies, which is resulting in higher input costs as well as increased costs for cattle and hog producers. Chicken: "Based on current futures prices, we expect higher feed costs in fiscal 2013 compared to fiscal 2012 of ~$450 million." Beef -- "We expect to see a reduction of industry fed cattle supplies of 2-3% and beef exports to decrease in fiscal 2013 as compared to fiscal 2012. Although we generally expect adequate supplies in regions we operate our plants, there may be periods of imbalance of fed cattle supply and demand. For fiscal 2013, we believe our Beef segment will remain profitable, but will be below its normalized range of 2.5%-4.5%....We expect to continue repurchasing shares under our share repurchase program."
"I'm still confident our results for 2013 will be better than 2012." Q2 Segments: Chicken - Despite increased domestic and international production, total sales volumes decreased in the six months of fiscal 2013 due to reduced open-market meat purchases and mix of rendered product sales. Beef - Fed cattle supplies decreased which drove up average sales price and livestock cost. Sales volumes decreased due to a reduction in outside trim and tallow purchases. Outlook Details: "Our capital investment in our businesses will continue to help us to maintain strong operating results. In fiscal 2013, we expect overall domestic protein production (chicken, beef, pork and turkey) to increase ~1% from fiscal 2012 levels. The drought conditions in 2012 reduced grain supplies, which is resulting in higher input costs as well as increased costs for cattle and hog producers. Chicken: "Based on current futures prices, we expect higher feed costs in fiscal 2013 compared to fiscal 2012 of ~$450 million." Beef -- "We expect to see a reduction of industry fed cattle supplies of 2-3% and beef exports to decrease in fiscal 2013 as compared to fiscal 2012. Although we generally expect adequate supplies in regions we operate our plants, there may be periods of imbalance of fed cattle supply and demand. For fiscal 2013, we believe our Beef segment will remain profitable, but will be below its normalized range of 2.5%-4.5%....We expect to continue repurchasing shares under our share repurchase program."
