Seneca Foods share price today

Seneca Foods Corporation's share price was $146.70 at the close on 4 November 2026. That is 7.0% below its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $108 and $200, and at that close it sat 42% of the way up from that low.

A share price tends to move through four phases: moving sideways (stage 1), rising (stage 2), stalling near a high (stage 3) and falling (stage 4). The phase helps read everything below.

Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, and it has been behind for 6 weeks running.

Over the last 1 year the share price moved +45% while the S&P 500 moved +18%, so it is ahead of the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 25 September 2026. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week.

This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row.

Seneca Foods Corporation pays no dividend. In the last 12 reported quarters it declared no dividend per share, so there is no payout history to chart and no yield to show. Companies like this usually keep their earnings in the business, so the cash-flow sections show where that cash goes.

Seneca Foods is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list.

Seneca Foods Corporation earned $19.5 M of net profit in the Jun 2026 quarter, +31.0% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 5th quarter in a row of profit growth. Full-year FY26 profit was $115 M. Over 4 years profit has grown 25.6% a year on average. That is 4.8% of the quarter's revenue.

Net profit is what is left after every cost, interest and tax. Earnings per share, dividends and book value all grow from it.

The same quarter a year earlier earned $14.9 M. 1 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

For the full year, FY26 profit was $115 M (+178.3% on the year before).

Why profit moved: revenue changed +36.2% on a year earlier and the margin moved −1.2 percentage points. Sales did the work, and the margin was about flat.

On average over the last four quarters, profit changed +1,115.7% and revenue +14.8%. Profit is growing faster than sales: fixed costs are spread over more sales, so each extra dollar of revenue adds more to profit.

Seneca Foods Corporation reported $405 M of revenue in the Jun 2026 quarter, +36.2% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 4th quarter in a row with growth on the year before. Over 4 years it has grown 4.6% a year on average. The last full year, FY26, came in at $1.7 B.

Revenue is everything the company billed its customers in the period.

The last four reported quarters add to $1.8 B.

FY26 revenue was $1.7 B, +5.1% on the year before.

Recent pace: the last four quarters grew +14.8% on average, against 4.6% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing faster than its own long-run rate.

Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew +12.5%, against +9.8% a year over the last 8 quarters (stabilising); profit over the last 12 months grew +174.7%, against +50.3% a year (accelerating).

Seneca Foods Corporation's operating margin was 7.2% in the Jun 2026 quarter, 1.2 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Its latest full-year margin is the highest it has ever reported. Across 5 years it has been between 1.9% and 9.4%. The latest quarter is within that range.

Operating margin is what is left from every $100 of sales after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax. It shows pricing power and cost control.

Why the margin moved: operating margin changed −1.2 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed −2.3 points. So the drop came mostly from the gross margin, which means input costs and prices charged.

As noted under valuation: when margins are at a record, every ratio built on profit looks better than usual, so a low multiple can mislead.

Over the last 3 years, 218% of Seneca Foods Corporation's reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY26 it brought in $225 M of operating cash against $115 M of profit. After $44.3 M of spending on assets, $180 M was left over as free cash.

The profit and loss account shows what was earned. The cash-flow statement shows the cash that actually came in. Comparing operating cash flow with profit is one of the best checks that a profit is real.

Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year.

Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason.

What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building.

Seneca Foods Corporation does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent $118 M on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 2.4% of FY26 revenue a year.

Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid. Debtor days: how long customers take to pay. Inventory days: how long stock sits. The cash cycle: the whole loop, in days of sales.

Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn.

Spending on assets: $118 M over the last 3 years.

In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns.

Seneca Foods Corporation's P/E is 8.5×, near the low end of its own history: it has been lower only 10% of the time. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 10.7×, over 1 year of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth.

P/E is the share price divided by a year's profit per share: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar of yearly profit.

Keep one thing in mind: margins are the best this company has ever reported. A multiple that looks low against its own past can mislead when profit is at a record. If margins fall back, today's multiple is higher than it looks.

Why the multiple is where it is: over the past year earnings per share moved +181.3% while the price moved +36.3%. Earnings did better than the price, which pulled the multiple down within its own range.

In short: the multiple is low against its own past, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple.

Seneca Foods Corporation's business is getting better. Profit growth hit its low 4 quarters ago at −17.8% and has recovered to +174.7%, with ROCE steady at 9.2%. This is based on 12 quarters of 4 measures.

Every business is somewhere on a path of getting better or worse, and this section names where. The last 12 quarters of growth in revenue, profit and earnings per share, plus the return the business earns on its capital, are read as lines. Getting worse: the lines are falling. Turning around: a low point has just formed and the last few quarters are rising from it. Getting better: the rise from the low has lasted. Growing steadily: steady growth with healthy returns. Slowing from a peak: still high, but slowing. When the lines disagree the result is mixed; too little history means no reading. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the steady yearly rate that would turn the starting value into the latest one. It is the fairest way to compare growth over different periods. If the 1-year figure is much bigger than the 10-year one, recent growth is running faster than the long-run trend. A dash means there is no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss, where a growth rate means nothing.

Why it matters: a lasting rise from a low is what this page is built to show.

Compound annual growth rate (%)

Compound annual growth rate over each period, %. Revenue, profit and EPS come from yearly figures; the stock price row is price growth over the same periods. A dash means no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss.

Seneca Foods Corporation earned a ROE of 15% in FY26. That is up from a low of 2% in FY23. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 8.6 percentage points above its cost of capital, so growth here adds value, not just size. It comes from a 6.9% net margin and 1.33× asset turnover (sales divided by assets).

Return on equity (ROE) is the profit the business earns on its shareholders’ money. We do not have the full capital split, so ROE is the longest history we can draw here.

Why the return is what it is (FY26): a 6.9% net margin × 1.33× asset turnover × 1.65× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 15.1% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing is a big part of it.

The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: 12.8% − 4.2% = +8.6 percentage points. The 4.2% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. A gap this wide means each dollar put back into the business creates more than a dollar of value.

Seneca Foods Corporation has total debt of $240 M against shareholder equity of $774 M as of Jun 2026, so its debt is 0.31× its equity. Year by year, that ratio went from 0.29 in FY21 to 0.39 in FY26. Keep that borrowing in mind when reading the returns on this page.

Debt-to-equity shows how much of the business is paid for with borrowed money. Lower is safer, and the direction matters as much as the level.

8.0% of Seneca Foods Corporation's tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so some traders are betting against it. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 3.8 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead.

There is no quarter-by-quarter list of owners here, so we look at short interest: the share of tradable shares held in short positions, which gain if the price falls.

It is a single reading at one point in time; we do not have its history.

Why it is at this level: the figure does not say who has the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story.

For Seneca Foods Corporation, the Z-score is 4.38. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is well clear of danger. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure.

The Z-score estimates how far a company is from balance-sheet trouble. Above about 3 is safe; below about 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not used for banks and lenders.

Why it matters: a Z-score of 4.38 is well clear of the danger zone, so the balance sheet is not the risk here.

There is no score against its industry: Seneca Foods Corporation is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Packaged Foods.

The score ranks a company within its industry: each measure is scored against the other members. Without that group there is no score, so none is shown.

No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison.

Seneca Foods is the 28th largest of 39 Packaged Foods companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 5 November 2026). Just above it: The Simply Good Foods Company, Westrock Coffee Company and Seneca Foods Corporation. Just below it: John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc., Mama's Creations, Inc. and Once Upon A Farm, PBC.

Packaged Foods companies close in size

25. The Simply Good Foods Company $1.1 billion
26. Westrock Coffee Company $1 billion
27. Seneca Foods Corporation $996 million
28. Seneca Foods Corporation $993 million
29. John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc. $640 million
30. Mama's Creations, Inc. $629 million
31. Once Upon A Farm, PBC $417 million

All 39 Packaged Foods companies, largest first

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