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.
Follow MKC
McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC) Gross margin
McCormick & Company, Incorporated's gross margin over the twelve months to 31 August 2026 was 39.1%, up 1.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (37.9%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 35.8% (fiscal 2022) to 41.5% (fiscal 2016); the current reading is higher than 27% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 27.5% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 34.8%.
Gross margin, annual
Embed this chart
Annual newest first
| Period | Gross margin | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 37.9% | (0.64) |
| FY2024 | 38.5% | 0.98 |
| FY2023 | 37.6% | 1.74 |
| FY2022 | 35.8% | (3.66) |
| FY2021 | 39.5% | (1.59) |
| FY2020 | 41.1% | 0.95 |
| FY2019 | 40.1% | 0.64 |
| FY2018 | 39.5% | 1.55 |
| FY2017 | 37.9% | (3.59) |
| FY2016 | 41.5% | 1.08 |
Quarterly newest first
| Period | Gross margin | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 39.3% | (0.92) |
| May 2026 | 40.2% | 2.35 |
| Feb 2026 | 37.8% | (1.10) |
| Nov 2025 | 38.9% | 1.53 |
| 43 more quarters | Free account |
Against its own ten years
Gross margin against peers
| Company | Gross margin |
|---|---|
| MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated | 39.1% |
| SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare | 38.7% |
| GIS General Mills, Inc. compare | 33.6% |
| DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare | 26.3% |
| LW Lamb Weston compare | 19.4% |
| HRL Hormel Foods Corporation compare | 15.7% |
| SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare | 13.4% |
| JBS JBS N.V. compare | 11.8% |
| MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare | — |
| Packaged Foods industry median | 27.5% |
| Consumer Defensive sector median | 34.8% |
| Market median | 46.2% |
What Gross margin is
Gross Margin tells an investor how much of each sale a company keeps after paying the direct costs of making or buying what it sells.
Gross Profit ÷ Revenue
More on MKC
- Revenue
- Net income
- EPS (diluted)
- EBITDA
- Free cash flow
- Operating cash flow
- Operating margin
- Net margin
- Free cash flow margin
- P/E ratio
- P/S ratio
- P/B ratio
- Price to free cash flow
- EV/EBITDA
- EV/Sales
- EV/FCF
- Return on equity
- Return on assets
- Return on invested capital
- Debt to equity
- Current ratio
- Total debt
- Shares outstanding
- Book value per share
- Revenue growth
- Piotroski F-score
- Altman Z-score
- Beneish M-score
- The full statement