Tyson Foods makes stock payments for non-employee directors
by February 10, 2026 11:42 am 387 views
Tyson Foods made stock awards to 12 of its 15 corporate board members as annual pay for being on the board of directors. Board Chair John H. Tyson, CEO Donnie King, and John Randal Tyson are company employees and do not qualify for the board stock awards.
Sarah Bond, Olivia Tyson, Noel White, Maria Martinez, Maria Borras, Katherine Quinn, Mike Beebe, Les Baledge, Cheryl Miller, Barbara Tyson, and David Bronczek each received 2,911.431 shares at a share price of $65.26, totaling $190,000. The lead director for this year is Jeffrey Schomburger, who received 3,754.214 shares at $65.26 per share, valued at $245,000.
In addition to the annual stock awards, Tyson Foods pays directors an annual retainer of $125,000. Lead director Schomberger’s cash pay is $180,000 annually. Committee chairs also receive added annual compensation of $25,000.
John H. Tyson and King are named officers at Tyson Foods, and their compensation is outlined in the company’s annual Proxy filing.
John R. Tyson, 35, was appointed to the board on May 8, 2025, and is a company employee. For his board service, Tyson receives annual cash and equity compensation in an amount and mix equivalent to the director compensation policy for non-employee directors. His total compensation for last year, after joining the board in May, was $824,046. He also is chair for the board’s strategy committee.
The Proxy filing did not detail John R. Tyson’s job title at the company. He served as chief financial officer from 2022 to 2024, when he was removed from that position after a second arrest for public intoxication. Before that, he was the executive vice president of strategy in 2021 and chief sustainability officer from 2019 to 2022.
Tyson shareholders elected the directors at its recent shareholder meeting in Springdale. The vote totals were released Feb. 9 in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Each director received a minimum of 828 million affirmative votes, and the “no” votes ranged from 5.5 million to 92.516 million, well below the level of “yes” votes. There were roughly 27 million non-votes from shares held by brokers.
Shares of Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) closed Feb. 9 at $60.40, up 14 cents. During the past 52 weeks the shares have traded between $50.56 and $66.41.