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) Operating margin

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McCormick & Company, Incorporated's operating margin over the twelve months to 31 August 2026 was 13.4%, down 2.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (15.7%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 12.8% (fiscal 2015) to 17.9% (fiscal 2019); 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 1.55%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 15.7% (0.12)
FY2024 15.8% 1.32
FY2023 14.5% 0.85
FY2022 13.6% (2.47)
FY2021 16.1% (1.77)
FY2020 17.8% (0.07)
FY2019 17.9% 1.11
FY2018 16.8% 2.01
FY2017 14.8% 0.26
FY2016 14.5% 1.77

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Aug 2026 10.7% (3.55)
May 2026 14.3% 2.13
Feb 2026 12.1% (4.67)
Nov 2025 16.8% 0.07
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Against its own ten years

Low 12.8% High 17.9%
Ten-year median 15.7%
Current reading's percentile 5

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 14.5%
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated 13.4%
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 9.02%
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 8.62%
LW Lamb Weston compare 7.80%
JBS JBS N.V. compare 3.57%
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation compare 3.47%
GIS General Mills, Inc. compare −1.13%
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare —
Packaged Foods industry median 0.00%
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.55%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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