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) Net margin

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McCormick & Company, Incorporated's net margin over the twelve months to 31 August 2026 was 19.4%, up 7.8 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (11.5%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 9.35% (fiscal 2015) to 17.6% (fiscal 2018); the current reading is higher than 55% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 0.00% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.41%.

Net margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Net margin Change (points)
FY2025 11.5% (0.19)
FY2024 11.7% 1.51
FY2023 10.2% (0.52)
FY2022 10.7% (1.21)
FY2021 12.0% (1.39)
FY2020 13.3% 0.20
FY2019 13.1% (4.46)
FY2018 17.6% 7.51
FY2017 10.1% (0.62)
FY2016 10.7% 1.36

Quarterly newest first

Period Net margin Change (points)
Aug 2026 4.82% (2.93)
May 2026 7.75% (46.48)
Feb 2026 54.2% 41.98
Nov 2025 12.3% (0.82)
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Against its own ten years

Low 9.35% High 17.6%
Ten-year median 11.5%
Current reading's percentile 95

Net margin against peers

Company Net margin
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated 19.4%
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 9.13%
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 6.84%
LW Lamb Weston compare 3.85%
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation compare 2.82%
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 2.51%
JBS JBS N.V. compare 1.22%
GIS General Mills, Inc. compare −4.89%
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare —
Packaged Foods industry median 0.00%
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.41%
Market median 0.45%

What Net margin is

Net Profit Margin tells an investor how much of each unit of revenue ends up as profit for shareholders after all costs, interest and taxes.

Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Revenue

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