Post Holdings, Inc.

POST Consumer Defensive Packaged Foods

Post Holdings, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended September 2025) was $8.2 billion, up 2.97% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue fell 1.83%, EPS fell 27.7%, free cash flow grew 69.7% and total debt rose 3.88%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue growth for five consecutive years, operating cash flow growth for three; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

78.56 1.17 +1.51%
Market cap
$3.4B
P/E
13.2×
Fwd P/E
13.3×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
1.46
Beneish M
−2.48
Dividend safety
n/a

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total buys 0.18
Total sells 34.90
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy 1 — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell 1 1 — 1 — — 1 — — — 1 —
Insider Ownership 17.43%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 3,400.00
Revenue 8,412.50
Net Income 293.70
Free Cash Flow 585.60
Net Debt 7,360.10
Current Ratio 1.85 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 2.47 (above 2: weak)
P/E ratio 13.25
Fwd P/E 13.30
P/S ratio 0.42
P/B ratio 1.15
Past 5Y EPS Growth 253.37% (at or above 15%: strong)
This Y EPS Growth 5.82%
Next Y EPS Growth (6.01%) (below 0%: weak)
Next Y revenue growth 0.18%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 6.15%

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Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 23.36%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 1.00%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 10.39%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 1.58%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 10.28%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio —
Annual Dividend Rate —
Annual Dividend Yield —
total individual payouts
2025 Powerpack
2024 Powerpack
2023 Powerpack
2022 Powerpack
2021 Powerpack
2020 Powerpack
2017 Powerpack
predictions special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 117 791 183 273
Receivables 512 583 735 699
Inventory 790 754 875 930
Other 58 — 116 —
1,479 2,232 2,025 1,995
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 369 484 624 559
ST’ Debt 1 1 1 1
Other 435 460 588 517
805 945 1,213 1,077

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 5.79% 11.61% 11.72%
Cash Flow 8.26% 9.80% 37.67%
Earnings 0.00% 234.64% (23.73%)
Book Value 2.38% 5.88% 4.85%

Revenue $m

Dec Mar Jun Sep Year
’26 2,175 2,043 1,948 — —
’25 1,975 1,952 1,984 2,247 8,158
’24 1,966 1,999 1,948 2,010 7,923
’23 1,566 1,620 1,859 1,945 6,991
’22 1,338 1,410 1,525 1,579 5,851
’21 1,458 1,202 1,248 1,074 4,981
’20 1,457 1,494 1,336 424 4,711
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Dec Mar Jun Sep Year
’26 236 242 213 — —
’25 310 161 226 301 998
’24 174 250 272 235 932
’23 98 100 282 270 750
’22 106 36 76 165 383
’21 115 48 233 193 588
’20 108 (19) 319 217 626
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Dec Mar Jun Sep Year
’26 120 153 161 — —
’25 182 71 95 152 500
’24 94 151 162 97 503
’23 46 19 213 170 449
’22 63 (6) 12 77 145
’21 77 5 190 144 417
’20 31 (57) 287 135 396
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Dec Mar Jun Sep Year
’26 1.71 1.56 1.29 — —
’25 1.78 1.03 1.79 0.88 5.51
’24 1.35 1.48 1.53 1.28 5.64
’23 1.52 0.92 1.38 1.01 4.82
’22 (0.25) 8.40 2.72 1.32 12.09
’21 1.21 1.69 (0.95) 0.39 2.38
’20 1.38 (2.76) 0.52 0.83 0.01
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1.7
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to September

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 33.33 49.58 46.24 57.13 45.14 60.08 61.68 78.85 87.53 95.07

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 58.25 58.27 66.38 74.43 73.55 77.17 95.83 98.84 125.84 119.85
People
People Employees 8,700 11,410 11,550 10,100 10,200 10,735 10,420 11,430 11,480 13,180
Revenue/emp, $m 0.58 0.46 0.54 0.56 0.46 0.46 0.56 0.61 0.69 0.62
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 5,027 5,226 6,257 5,681 4,711 4,981 5,851 6,991 7,923 8,158
Gross margin, % 30.78 30.06 29.63 31.54 30.77 28.67 25.08 26.92 29.09 28.68
EBT (30) 74 265 159 (46) 214 895 413 472 444
EBT margin, % (0.60) 1.42 4.23 2.80 (0.97) 4.30 15.30 5.91 5.96 5.44
Net income (3) 48 468 126 (55) 112 743 313 367 336
Depreciation 303 323 398 380 345 367 380 449 477 554
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 73.06 77.08 93.95 80.24 68.37 77.58 96.08 116.52 132.27 145.42
Earnings (0.41) 0.51 6.87 1.72 0.01 2.42 12.42 5.21 6.12 5.98
Cash flow 7.30 5.70 10.79 9.72 9.08 9.16 6.28 12.51 15.55 17.80
Capex (1.74) (2.65) (3.38) (3.84) (3.34) (2.67) (3.90) (5.03) (7.16) (8.88)
Free cash flow 5.57 3.05 7.41 5.88 5.74 6.49 2.39 7.48 8.39 8.92
Book value 43.73 41.15 45.95 41.49 41.06 42.90 53.62 64.19 68.47 67.09
Shares, m 69 68 67 71 69 64 61 60 60 56
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 0.00 120.46 9.30 37.65 2,814.00 30.04 6.62 16.44 18.94 18.09
P/S 0.69 0.75 0.68 0.86 0.82 0.93 0.85 0.73 0.88 0.74
P/B 1.15 1.41 1.40 1.67 1.37 1.68 1.53 1.32 1.69 1.60
EV/Sales 1.37 1.83 1.68 1.92 2.06 2.09 1.69 1.57 1.64 1.63
EV/FCF 17.98 46.21 21.34 26.26 24.54 24.96 68.23 24.53 25.77 26.52
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 502 387 719 688 626 588 383 750 932 998
Capex (119) (180) (225) (272) (230) (171) (237) (302) (429) (498)
Free cash flow 383 207 494 416 396 417 145 449 503 500
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 1,443 1,912 1,408 1,323 1,313 1,037 1,400 673 1,287 812
Total debt 4,564 7,171 7,254 7,080 7,024 6,443 5,958 6,040 6,813 7,423
Net debt 3,412 5,641 6,260 6,025 5,831 5,771 4,926 5,923 6,022 7,240
Shareholders’ equity 3,009 2,790 3,061 2,937 2,829 2,754 3,266 3,851 4,101 3,764
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA (0.31) 0.33 3.67 0.97 0.01 1.36 6.38 2.63 2.99 2.54
ROIC 5.31 3.83 3.85 5.45 3.87 3.58 3.17 3.83 4.90 4.54
ROE (0.95) 1.20 15.63 4.06 0.03 5.97 25.14 8.47 9.22 8.54
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Sep 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

Post Holdings, Inc. vs peers in Packaged Foods (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
CAG Conagra Brands $6.8B — (loss-making) 8.2× −1.39% (below 0%: shrinking) +6.97% (above 0%: growing) −464.50% (below 0%: shrinking) 23.83% 10.34% Compare
INGR Ingredion Incorporated $6.1B 10.5× 9.5× +0.93% (above 0%: growing) −40.79% (below 0%: shrinking) +34.38% (above 0%: growing) 23.03% 10.16% Compare
CPB The Campbell's Company $5.9B 14.8× 10.7× −7.93% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m +5.43% (above 0%: growing) 27.28% 0.19% Compare
POST Post Holdings, Inc. $3.4B 13.2× 13.3× −1.83% (below 0%: shrinking) −27.69% (below 0%: shrinking) +69.65% (above 0%: growing) 29.07% 9.72%
FRPT Freshpet, Inc. $3.3B 16.0× 26.0× +15.45% (above 0%: growing) +17.65% (above 0%: growing) +3,203.37% (above 0%: growing) 42.11% 7.10% Compare
MZTI The Marzetti Company $2.8B 15.0× 14.9× −2.19% (below 0%: shrinking) +49.15% (above 0%: growing) −30.07% (below 0%: shrinking) 24.51% 12.41% Compare
CENT Central Garden & Pet Company $2.3B 15.6× 13.9× −8.17% (below 0%: shrinking) −4.58% (below 0%: shrinking) +25.12% (above 0%: growing) 35.92% 14.26% Compare
CENTA Central Garden & Pet Company $2.3B 13.4× — −8.17% (below 0%: shrinking) −4.58% (below 0%: shrinking) +25.12% (above 0%: growing) 35.92% 14.26% Compare
UTZ Utz Brands, Inc. $2.1B — (loss-making) 9.2× +1.39% (above 0%: growing) n/m +93.40% (above 0%: growing) 25.87% (1.48%) Compare
Median of peers $3.0B 14.9× 10.7× −1.79% +1.19% +25.12% 26.58% 10.25%

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Post Holdings, Inc. (POST) key facts

  • Strength: Post Holdings, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended September 2025) was $8.2 billion, up 2.97% from fiscal 2024.
  • Post Holdings, Inc. (POST) is a Packaged Foods company in the Consumer Defensive sector, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
  • As of October 16, 2026, POST traded at $78.56, a market capitalization of $3.4 billion.
  • Return on equity was 8.54% and debt-to-equity 2.47.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 4 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 1.46 (distress zone) for fiscal 2025.

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