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) P/E ratio

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As of 16 October 2026, McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC) trades at a P/E ratio of 8.3×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 7.5× (May 2026) to 37.2× (April 2022); the current reading is higher than 2% of that period. That is below the Packaged Foods industry median of 13.4× and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 18.1×.

P/E ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
FY2025 22.7× (14.98%)
FY2024 26.7× 4.44%
FY2023 25.5× (23.89%)
FY2022 33.5× 10.59%
FY2021 30.3× (9.02%)
FY2020 33.3× 4.39%
FY2019 31.9× 51.13%
FY2018 21.1× (22.46%)
FY2017 27.2× 11.44%
FY2016 24.5× (10.64%)

Quarterly newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
Aug 2026 9.7× 25.84%
May 2026 7.7× (32.37%)
Feb 2026 11.4× (49.52%)
Nov 2025 22.7× (4.81%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 7.5× High 37.2×
Ten-year median 27.4×
Current reading's percentile 2

P/E ratio against peers

Company P/E ratio
GIS General Mills, Inc. compare n/m
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 6.9×
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated 8.3×
JBS JBS N.V. compare 12.8×
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 16.3×
LW Lamb Weston compare 28.9×
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation compare 32.4×
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 59.3×
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare —
Packaged Foods industry median 13.4×
Consumer Defensive sector median 18.1×
Market median 18.1×

What P/E ratio is

Price to Earnings Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of a company’s annual profit per share.

Stock Price ÷ EPS (Basic) (TTM)

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