McCormick & Company, Incorporated

MKC Consumer Defensive Packaged Foods

McCormick & Company, Incorporated’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended November 2025) was $6.8 billion, up 1.73% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to August 2026, revenue grew 17.4%, EPS fell 53.8%, free cash flow fell 45.6% and total debt fell 4.77%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for ten consecutive years, revenue growth for ten; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

46.35 0.64 +1.40%
Market cap
$12.3B
P/E
8.3×
Fwd P/E
15.7×
Dividend yield
4.14%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
2.57
Beneish M
−2.48
Dividend safety
59/100

McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC) Free cash flow margin

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McCormick & Company, Incorporated's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 31 August 2026 was 12.1%, up 1.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (10.8%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 6.35% (fiscal 2022) to 14.6% (fiscal 2023); the current reading is higher than 45% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 2.37% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.64%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 10.8% 1.20
FY2024 9.62% (4.99)
FY2023 14.6% 8.26
FY2022 6.35% (2.36)
FY2021 8.71% (5.86)
FY2020 14.6% 0.11
FY2019 14.5% 2.16
FY2018 12.3% (1.08)
FY2017 13.4% 1.91
FY2016 11.5% 0.72

Against its own ten years

Low 6.35% High 14.6%
Ten-year median 11.5%
Current reading's percentile 45

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 17.4%
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 13.7%
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated 12.1%
GIS General Mills, Inc. compare 8.46%
LW Lamb Weston compare 6.49%
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation compare 6.45%
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 5.31%
JBS JBS N.V. compare 0.60%
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare —
Packaged Foods industry median 2.37%
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.64%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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