TSN options flow: unusual options activity in Tyson Foods, Inc.

Updated 28 September 2026, 09:54 ET

Over the last week the tape recorded 2 unusual options prints in Tyson Foods, Inc. (TSN), $54K of tracked premium, close to even between bullish and bearish premium. Bullish premium was $0 against $0 bearish; $25K went into calls and $29K into puts, a put call ratio of 1.17. The largest print was $29K of TSN 15 Jan 2027 $55 puts on 21 September 2026, swept at ask. The last session with prints, 22 September 2026, added 1 print and $25K of premium. TSN closed at $50.92 on 25 September 2026, down 0.4%.

This week's unusual flow

Prints from 21 September 2026 to 22 September 2026, 2 sessions. Delayed tier: every print is shown twenty minutes after it executed, and the page is rebuilt after each session.

Net premium is bullish minus bearish premium. The put call ratio is put premium divided by call premium, weighted by money rather than by contract count. Sweeps is the share of prints executed across several exchanges at once. Read the guide: Reading the Pulse.

Largest prints of the week

Size above open interest means the trade opened a position larger than everything that existed in the contract the night before. Above ask and below bid are the most aggressive executions. Read the guide: Size versus open interest.

Where the money is aimed

The most premium, $29K, is aimed at the 15 Jan 2027 expiry; the nearest expiry with unusual prints is 20 Nov 2026.

A print in a contract expiring this week is a view about the next few days, often about a known event; a print months out is a different kind of statement. Read the guide: 0DTE options flow.

The last session, 22 September 2026

Every print in TSN with its full detail, the live tape, one tap filters and saved screeners: open TSN in Options Sentiment Screener.

Price

The live quote and the price chart sit beside the ticker's flow in the app: open TSN in Options Sentiment Screener.

Analysts

The most recent analyst targets on file, from 7 firms, have a median of $66, 29.6% above the last close. The last 90 days brought 1 upgrade.

Calls bought at a strike above the average target are a bet that the analysts are too cautious; puts far below the price in a name they like are protection or a strong disagreement. Read the guide: Reading one ticker's flow.

About Tyson Foods, Inc.

Exchange

NYSE

Sector

Consumer Staples

Industry

Food Products

Headquarters

SPRINGDALE, Arkansas

Website

tysonfoods.com

Tyson Foods operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. The company processes live fed cattle and live market hogs; fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts. It also manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products, including ready-to-eat sandwiches, flame-grilled hamburgers, Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, flour and corn tortilla products.

In the same sector

Flow pages for other Consumer Staples names in the S&P 500:

WMT Walmart Inc.COST Costco Wholesale Corp.KO Coca Cola Co.PG Procter & Gamble Co.PM Philip Morris International Inc.PEP PepsiCo Inc.MO Altria Group, Inc.MNST Monster Beverage Corp.

Learn

• What unusual options activity means
• Reading one ticker's flow
• Sweeps, blocks and where a trade printed
• Size versus open interest
• Bullish or bearish, how a print's sentiment is inferred
• The conviction score and whale prints