Tyson Foods, Inc.

The full register, from 13F filings

The Register tab above is hand research: a dozen holders, each traced to the filing it came from. This asks the same question of the whole market for the quarter ended 31-mar-2026, where 878 managers reported a position. Broad where the research is deep, and shallow in the ways a 13F always is.

Built from 13F filings, which report US listed, long, US custodied positions only. A register from this source is a floor rather than a level: a holder's true position can be far larger, as BlackRock's ASML stake shows at 1.28m shares in a 13F against 26.3m in its 13G/A. Holdings held through derivatives, outside US custody, or below a manager's reporting obligation do not appear. Where a holder is marked as a family, its total sums several separate filing entities and describes something no single filing describes; the constituent entities and their share counts are listed so the total can be checked. That roll-up can legitimately exceed the family's own Schedule 13G, because a 13G is filed by one legal entity: Vanguard reports Alphabet through ten advisory entities, and The Vanguard Group Inc itself reported zero after its January 2026 disaggregation.

What a reader needs to know to read these numbers

• DUAL CLASS, CONTROLLED COMPANY. Tyson has Class A common stock (NYSE: TSN, one vote/share, the listed and index-tracked class) and Class B common stock (not listed, ten votes/share, convertible into Class A on a share-for-share basis at the holder's option). As of 27 Jun 2026 (Q3 FY2026 10-Q cover page, filed 3 Aug 2026): 281,792,507 Class A shares and 70,009,005 Class B shares outstanding. company.shares_outstanding is set to the COMBINED total, 351,801,512, following this project's precedent for other controlled dual-class companies (Workday, Block, Lennar): the register chart divides raw row 'shares' by this single denominator and never reads pct_of_company, and since Tyson Limited Partnership's Class B holding is put directly into the 'shares' field on its own row, the denominator must include Class B or that row would overstate its share of the company. Every institutional row's pct_denominator also states the Class A-only percentage for reference, since 13F filers (all 8 institutional rows here) report Class A only, TSN's only 13F-reportable, exchange-listed CUSIP (902494103).
• VOTING CONCENTRATION, the real story. Tyson Limited Partnership (TLP), controlled by trusts for descendants of company founder Don Tyson, owns 99.99% of Class B stock (70,000,000 of 70,009,005 shares) plus 2,743,680 Class A shares (2026 DEF 14A, record date 8 Dec 2025). Because Class B carries 10 votes/share, TLP ALONE controls approximately 71.48% of Tyson's aggregate voting power; combined with the rest of the directors-and-executive-officers group's holdings, the aggregate rises to 72.09% (2026 DEF 14A footnote to the Security Ownership of Management table). A closely related figure from the FY2025 10-K's risk-factor and MD&A sections states that 'the TLP and members of the Tyson family own, in the aggregate, 2.56% of the outstanding shares of Class A stock, giving them, collectively, control of approximately 71.94% of the total voting power,' as of 27 Sep 2025 (a slightly earlier date and a slightly different scope, TLP plus board-member family shareholdings rather than TLP plus the full officers/directors group, hence the small difference between 71.94%, 71.90% and 72.09% across the two filings). Tyson is formally a 'controlled company' under NYSE rules for this reason. Chairman John H. Tyson (through his role as Investment Trustee of the Tyson Family GP Trust, a 44.445% general-partner interest in TLP) and director Barbara A. Tyson (trustee of the Barbara Tyson GP Revocable Trust, an 11.115% GP interest) are the family members with direct governance control of TLP.
• 13F BASIS: every 13F filer in this register (Vanguard family, BlackRock, PZENA, State Street, Davis Selected Advisers, AQR, Geode, T. Rowe Price Associates) reports Class A shares only under CUSIP 902494103, since Class A is the only exchange-listed, 13F-reportable class. Tyson Limited Partnership, by contrast, holds overwhelmingly Class B (plus a small Class A stake) and is not a 13F filer; its figures come from the DEF 14A beneficial-ownership table instead. This project is consistent throughout: institutional rows are Class A-only 13F figures, TLP's row is a combined Class A+B proxy figure, and each row's pct_denominator states which.
• OVERLAP: 'All directors, nominees and current executive officers as a group (21 persons)' (5,965,815 shares, 2.11% of Class A) is DISTINCT from and does NOT include Tyson Limited Partnership's 72,743,680 combined shares: the proxy's Security Ownership of Management table explicitly states its rows 'do not include any shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock owned by the TLP.' This is the documented Walmart/Walton-style precedent the brief warns about (a family control vehicle sitting OUTSIDE the officers/directors aggregate), confirmed from the filing text rather than inferred from holder_type. No stake in this register sits inside two containers: TLP's row and the officers-group row are additive, not overlapping, so no is_aggregate reduction was needed on either.
• HOLDINGS SIDE: FY2025 10-K (Investments note) reports Tyson's equity-method investments as ONE combined balance, $566 million at 27 Sep 2025 versus $550 million at 28 Sep 2024, covering multiple joint ventures: Vibra Agroindustrial S.A. (Brazil, a vertically-integrated chicken processing business, minority interest, EXITED, see below), Holding Agro Industrial S.A. (Argentina/Uruguay, vertically-integrated chicken processing, minority interest, still held, see holdings row above), and unnamed joint-venture interests in non-consolidated poultry businesses in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia and a non-consolidated chicken-processing business in China. No individual investee's value or ownership percentage is disclosed anywhere in the FY2025 10-K or the Q3 FY2026 10-Q (searched for 'equity method', 'investments in', 'joint venture', 'unconsolidated', 'non-marketable', 'minority interest', 'variable interest entity', 'equity securities'), so per the brief's combined-balance-trap rule, only the one named holding with enough detail to be worth a row (Holding Agro Industrial S.A.) is listed, with value_usd and pct_of_target null, and the combined $566m/$550m figures are recorded here rather than apportioned. Exhibit 21 (subsidiaries list) was checked per the brief's technique and is a bare wholly-owned-subsidiary name/jurisdiction list with no ownership-percentage column; neither Vibra Agroindustrial nor Holding Agro Industrial appears on it, consistent with them being non-consolidated minority interests rather than subsidiaries, which is a genuine negative rather than a place not checked.
• EXITED STAKE (note, no row): the Q3 FY2026 10-Q (period 27 Jun 2026, filed 3 Aug 2026) discloses that 'In July 2026, we completed the sale of our 40% minority interest in a vertically-integrated Brazilian poultry producer, which was accounted for under the equity method, for $120 million including $84 million received at closing and $36 million to be paid in July 2027.' The 10-Q does not name the investee, but the description (Brazil, vertically-integrated chicken processing, minority interest, equity method) matches Vibra Agroindustrial S.A. exactly as described in the FY2025 10-K's Business section, so this is very likely that stake; it is recorded here as a note rather than matched to a holdings row given the 10-Q's own text does not use the company name. The sale closed after the 10-Q's own period end (27 Jun 2026) but before its filing date (3 Aug 2026), so as of today (19 Aug 2026) this is a fully exited position, consistent with the brief's rule that an exited stake is a note with no row. In Q1 FY2026 (quarter ended 27 Dec 2025), Tyson separately recorded a $75 million impairment charge against a different, non-marketable equity investment without a readily determinable fair value; the 10-Q does not name that investee either, and it is recorded here as an unknown rather than guessed.
• REGISTER SELF-GATE, computed from the final file on disk exactly as the chart computes it: 10 register rows. No row carries is_aggregate with a member rolled into it (TLP and the officers group are additive, not overlapping, per the OVERLAP note above), so every row counts at full value. Institutional 13F rows (Vanguard 36,993,574 + BlackRock 26,216,957 + PZENA 17,016,651 + State Street 14,661,388 + Davis Selected Advisers 12,653,717 + AQR 8,197,389 + Geode 7,722,169 + T. Rowe Price Associates 1,707,089) sum to 125,168,934 shares (35.58% of the combined denominator, 44.42% of Class A alone). TLP adds 72,743,680 (20.68%). The officers/directors group adds 5,965,815 (1.70%). Total: 203,878,429 shares, 351,801,512 denominator, 57.95%. This sits slightly above the brief's usual 25-55% band, which the brief explicitly anticipates for a controlled dual-class company: 'the family block sits on top of index ownership of the float.' No class mismatch or double-counted family vehicle was found on re-check: every institutional row is confirmed Class A (13F CUSIP 902494103), TLP's row is confirmed combined Class A+B from the proxy's own beneficial-ownership table, TLP and the officers group are confirmed non-overlapping from the filing's own footnote text, and no fractional shares or pre/post-split issues exist (Tyson has not split its stock in the period covered by these filings). The 57.95% is therefore arithmetically explained: heavy institutional ownership of the Class A float (top 8 institutions alone are 44.4% of Class A) layered on top of TLP's 99.99% economic and 71.48% voting control of Class B, which is itself 19.9% of all common shares outstanding (70,009,005 / 351,801,512). Corroborated first-hand by the coordinator against this project's own 13F-derived register (data/registers/TSN.json, period 31 Mar 2026, separate pipeline, single CUSIP 902494103 which is Class A only). That snapshot reports total institutional ownership of 200,096,704 shares, which is 71.01% of Class A and 56.88% of the combined A+B denominator used here. The eight institutional rows in this file sum to 125,168,934 shares, 44.42% of Class A, so this register counts roughly two thirds of the institutional ownership that actually exists and the 57.95% is therefore CONSERVATIVE rather than inflated: on the snapshot's institutional figure alone, before adding any insider, the register would already be 56.88%. The composition reconciles exactly: 125,168,934 institutional (35.58% of A+B) plus the Tyson Limited Partnership's 72,743,680 (20.68%, being 70,000,000 Class B and 2,743,680 Class A) plus the officers container at its full 5,965,815 (1.70%) equals 203,878,429. No double count is possible between TLP and the officers group because the proxy expressly excludes TLP's shares from that table's rows, which is why TLP carries no rolls_up_into: that was read from the filing rather than inferred from holder_type, which is the documented Walmart and Walton requirement.
• Capital Group (all three main registrants: Capital World Investors CIK 1422849, Capital International Investors CIK 1562230, Capital Research Global Investors CIK 1422848) was checked and holds zero TSN in its Q2 2026 13F-HR filings, confirmed by both name-fragment ('TYSON') and CUSIP (902494103) search finding zero rows in each entity's full information table. T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc. (CIK 0001897612), the separate registrant alongside T. Rowe Price Associates, also holds zero TSN this quarter. These are genuine negatives, not gaps: no rows are written for them.
• Market cap ($20.35bn) and share price ($57.99, close 18 Aug 2026) are from stockanalysis.com, fetched 19 Aug 2026; its reported shares outstanding (350.90m) is close to but slightly below the 351,801,512 combined SEC figure used here (27 Jun 2026 10-Q cover page), consistent with a slightly later as-of date and continued share repurchase activity, and cross-checks the SEC figure closely.