tyson foods thrived in the pandemic as the meat producer passed cost hikes on by raising prices but bmo capital analyst kenneth zaslow downgraded the stock citing his weakened outlook on beef profitability zaslow downgraded his rating to market perform from outperform and lowered his price target to 99 from 115 on monday he also reduced his fiscal 2023 adjusted earnings per share outlook on tyson foods ticker tsn to 783 per share from 820 a share analysts tracked by factset have a slightly higher estimate of