Here's a cheat sheet for the profitability, revenue diversity, and debt burden metrics for several of the world's leading consumer foods companies:
Blend of reported numbers and estimates for FY 2009 / 2010 (USD millions)
| CPB | HSY | NSRGY | KFT | HNZ | GIS | K |
| Revenue | 7,676 | 5,298 | 107,618 | 49,000 | 10,500 | 14,796 | 12,575 |
| % from US | 81% | 86% | ? 25% | ? | 44% | 82% | 68% |
| % from International | 19% | 14% | ? 75% | ? | 66% | 18% | 32% |
| Operating Income, before interest expense (margin) | 1,348 (17.56%) | 761 (14.36%) | 14,970 (13.91%) | 5,814 (12.3%) | 1,559 (14.8%) | 2,861 (19.3%) | 2,001 (15.9%) |
| % from US | 89% | ~90% | ? 25% | ? | 53% | 92% | 86% |
| % from International | 11% | ~10% | ? 75% | ? | 47% | 8% | 14% |
| Net Income (margin) | 844 (10.99%) | 436 (8.23%) | 11,793 (10.96%) | 2,376 (4.85%) | 864 (8.2%) | 1,535 (10.3%) | 1,208 (9.61%) |
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| Operating cash flow (before paying interest expense) | 1,169 | 1,155 | 18,728 | ? | 1,557 | 2,581 | 1,938 |
| Interest expense (as a % of revenue) | 112 (1.46%) | 90 (1.70%) | 794 (0.74%) | 2,126 (4.34%) | 295 (2.81%) | 400 (2.70%) | 295 (2.35%) |
| Operating cash flow (after paying interest expense) | 1,057 | 1,065 | 17,934 | ? | 1,262 | 2,181 | 1,643 |
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| Total debt (does not include liabilities such as accounts receivables, leases etc) | 2,780 | 1,542 | ~23,404 | 30,030 | 4,500 | 5,375 | 4,836 |
| Debt to operating income ratio | 2.06 | 2.02 | 1.56 | 5.17 | 2.88 | 1.87 | 2.41 |
| Debt to operating cash flow (bef int) ratio | 2.38 | 1.36 | 1.25 | ? | 2.89 | 2.08 | 2.50 |
| Interest expense as % of operating income | 8.3% | 11.83% | 5.3% | 36.57% | 18.92% | 13.98% | 14.74% |
| Estimated interest rate incurred on debt (guesstimate; does not consider different debt maturities) | 4.03% | 5.83% | 3.39% | 7.08% | 6.56% | 7.44% | 6.10% |
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