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) Price to free cash flow

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As of 16 October 2026, McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC) trades at a price to free cash flow of 13.5×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 12.1× (June 2026) to 59.6× (December 2022); the current reading is higher than 1% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 8.7× and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 14.7×.

Price to free cash flow, daily

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Annual newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
FY2025 24.0× (25.94%)
FY2024 32.4× 81.80%
FY2023 17.8× (69.57%)
FY2022 58.7× 40.70%
FY2021 41.7× 36.53%
FY2020 30.5× 5.24%
FY2019 29.0× (4.12%)
FY2018 30.3× 47.81%
FY2017 20.5× (10.28%)
FY2016 22.8× (4.14%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
Aug 2026 15.7× 28.25%
May 2026 12.3× (55.45%)
Feb 2026 27.6× 14.66%
Nov 2025 24.0× (14.60%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 12.1× High 59.6×
Ten-year median 27.3×
Current reading's percentile 1

Price to free cash flow against peers

Company Price to free cash flow
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 8.6×
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 8.9×
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 10.8×
GIS General Mills, Inc. compare 11.5×
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated 13.5×
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation compare 14.3×
LW Lamb Weston compare 17.2×
JBS JBS N.V. compare 24.3×
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare —
Packaged Foods industry median 8.7×
Consumer Defensive sector median 14.7×
Market median 14.2×

What Price to free cash flow is

Price to Free Cash Flow Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of cash a company generates after its capital spending.

Stock Price ÷ ((Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM)) ÷ (Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)))

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