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Smithfield Foods IncConsumer Staples · Meat Packing Plants · CIK 91388 · FY ends Jan 3
$22.25
-0.03 (-0.13%)
USD · as of 2026-08-21 · marketstack

Legal & controls

2 of 2 annual reports readable here

Item 3 and Item 9A as filed · every verdict is the registrant’s own sentence, printed below it · a filing that fails an extraction gate reads “not extracted”

Fiscal yearFiledItem 3ICFRdisclosure controlsmaterial weaknessFiling
2025-12-282026-03-24in the noteseffectiveeffectivenone in Item 9AEDGAR

Item 3 · The information called for by this item is incorporated herein by reference to “Note 19: Regulation and Contingencies” to the consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Item 9A · ICFR · Based on its assessment, management concluded that, as of December 28, 2025, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective.

Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on our evaluation, our CEO and CFO concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

2024-12-292025-03-25in the notesnot extractedeffectivenone in Item 9AEDGAR

Item 3 · The information called for by this item is incorporated herein by reference to “Note 18: Commitments and Contingencies” to the consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report.

Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on our evaluation, our CEO and CFO concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

2 of 2 annual reports on record have their filing text cached on this host; the rest are listed with their EDGAR link and no extraction, because this surface never fetches from SEC on a page load.

  • Item 3 and Item 9A are located in the filing HTML already cached on this host and read with the same line-anchored item matcher and largest-gap body disambiguation the filing-narrative pass uses for Item 1A and Item 7 — no fetch, no model, no summarization.
  • A heading is accepted as a section only when it is not a table-of-contents row (a trailing page number), not a quoted reference in prose, and names its own section; the span must then clear a per-item length band and carry readable text after the heading. Anything that fails a gate is served as 'not extracted' with the reason — never as a default value.
  • An effectiveness conclusion is read only from a sentence that names its own control set (disclosure controls and procedures, or internal control over financial reporting) and states an outcome. Conditional sentences — the standard limitations paragraph and forward-looking remediation language — are excluded, because they are hypotheses rather than conclusions.
  • When a filing's own sentences disagree — an effective conclusion beside an unremediated material-weakness disclosure, or two conclusions of opposite sign — no verdict is asserted. A wrong 'controls were effective' reading is worse than no reading.
  • Every verdict is shown beside the verbatim sentence it was read from. The excerpt is the filing's own words, capped at 1,200 characters; the filing itself is one link away.