QualityDipStocks / Consumer Discretionary · Food Distributors
Sysco SYY
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 9% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading above our fair value estimate.
- Fair value est.
- $65.62−21%
- Market Value
- $81.06price +2%
- Off 52-wk high
- −9%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.14
5 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $82.90
- Fair value est.base case$65.62−20.8%
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$69.30−16.4%
- Market Valueavg paid since Oct 6$81.06−2.2%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$82.90you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$91.16+10.0%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 3.5% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 1.5%; bull = 8.5% and 5.5% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price sits inside the range.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, SYY’s free cash flow would need to grow about 8% a year for five years; our estimate uses 3%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much SYY moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 2.1× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.14
- Volatility
- 27% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.07
- Correlation QQQ
- −0.03
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 78% over the last 12 months.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 4.9% (price / FCF 20.6×): $1.9B of free cash in the last 12 months.
ProfitabilityReturn on invested capital of 17%, above the 9.5% discount rate our DCF uses.
Cash returnsDividend yield of 2.6% ($1.0B paid over 12 months, 59% of earnings).
Cash returnsFree cash flow grew 21% over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $65.62, 21% below the price.
Balance sheetDebt is 5.1× shareholders’ equity.
ProfitabilityOperating margin of 3.7%, below the 13% median for the 156 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: net debt 3.2× EBITDA (limit 3×).
RiskReports earnings Nov 3 (consensus EPS $1.17): results can move the price sharply and reset Market Value.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Sysco in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Food Distributors
All fundamentals
P/E 22.7 · FCF yield 4.9% · ROE 78%
Valuation
- P/E
- 22.7×Consumer Discretionary median 20.9×
- Price / FCF
- 20.6×
- FCF yield
- 4.9%
- EV / EBITDA
- 12.7×
- Price / sales
- 0.47×
- Price / book
- 14.94×
- Market cap
- $39.8Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $51.6B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $84.6B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +3.9%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +3.5%/yrfrom FY2023
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $3.66
- EPS growth, last FY
- −1.9%
- Net income, 12 months
- $1.8B
- Net income growth
- −4%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 18.5%
- Operating margin
- 3.7%
- Net margin
- 2.1%
- FCF margin
- 2.3%
- Return on equity
- 78%
- Return on invested capital
- 17%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $1.8B
- Total debt
- $13.5B
- Net cash
- −$11.7B
- Debt / equity
- 5.07×
- Interest coverage
- n/ainterest expense not tagged in SEC data
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $1.9B
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +21%
- Dividend yield
- 2.60%$1.0B paid
- Payout ratio
- 59%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $200M0.5% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −1.7%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $118M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 27, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 27, 2026. From Sysco’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $65.62 · MV $81.06 · FCF value $99.03
Assumes 3.5% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 3.5% a year FY23–FY26), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $4.03 a share (fiscal year to Jun 27, 2026), from the 10-K filed Aug 21, 2026.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 59 · 5 days +1.9%
The business
FCF $1.9B · Sales +5%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$1.9B
- Free-cash-flow yield4.8%
- Free-cash-flow margin2%
- Gross margin18%
- Operating margin4%
- Return on invested capital15%
- Return on equity79%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+5%
- Net debt / EBITDA3.2×
Next report
Nov 3
- DateTue Nov 3, before the open
- Consensus EPS$1.17
- Year-ago EPS$1.15
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
SYY is outside our quality screen
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