# McCormick share price today (McCormick & Company, Incorporated, MKC)

> McCormick & Company, Incorporated's earnings have grown faster than its share price. Earnings per share grew +0.3% in a year while the price moved −25.4%. MKC · Consumer Staples · Packaged Foods · data as of 3 November 2026. Page: https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/mkc

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## Key numbers

- Business trend: Mixed, from the last 12 quarters
- Price: $47.88 (−25.4% in a year)
- P/E: 8.7× (lower than 92% of the last 4.4 years)
- Revenue (Aug 2026): $2.0 B (+17.4% on a year ago)
- Profit (Aug 2026): $97.6 M (−56.7% on a year ago)
- Operating margin: 17.8% (+0.7 points on a year ago)
- ROE: 14%, FY25
- ROIC: 8.9%, against a 6.8% cost of capital: +2.1 points

The main question: yearly earnings per share moved +0.3% while the share price moved −25.4%. ## What is the McCormick share price today? McCormick & Company, Incorporated's share price was $47.88 at the close on 3 November 2026. It has been falling for 36 weeks. That is 9.9% below its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $45 and $71, and at that close it sat 12% of the way up from that low. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, and it has been behind for 7 weeks running. Over the last 10 years the share price moved −10% while the S&P 500 moved +255%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 18 September 2026. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week. This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row. ## What dividend does McCormick pay? McCormick & Company, Incorporated paid $1.89 per share over the last four reported quarters. The most recent declaration was $0.48 for Aug 2026. At today's price of $47.88 that is a yield of 3.95%, based on dividends already paid, not a forecast. ## Which stock lists is McCormick on? McCormick is on one of our US lists: S&P 500 companies. [S&P 500 companies](https://www.sectoralpha.in/sp-500-stocks)

## Is McCormick profitable? McCormick & Company, Incorporated earned $97.6 M of net profit in the Aug 2026 quarter, −56.7% on the same quarter a year earlier. Full-year FY25 profit was $789 M. Over 4 years profit has grown 1.1% a year on average. That is 4.8% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $226 M. For the full year, FY25 profit was $789 M (+0.1% on the year before). Why profit moved: revenue changed +17.4% on a year earlier and the margin moved +0.7 percentage points. Sales did the work, and the margin was about flat. On average over the last four quarters, profit changed +115.1% and revenue +13.4%. Profit is growing faster than sales: fixed costs are spread over more sales, so each extra dollar of revenue adds more to profit. ## How much revenue does McCormick make, and is it growing? McCormick & Company, Incorporated reported $2.0 B of revenue in the Aug 2026 quarter, +17.4% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 8th quarter in a row with growth on the year before. Over 4 years it has grown 2.0% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at $6.8 B. The last four reported quarters add to $7.7 B. FY25 revenue was $6.8 B, +1.7% on the year before. Recent pace: the last four quarters grew +13.4% on average, against 2.0% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing faster than its own long-run rate. Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew +13.2%, against +7.3% a year over the last 8 quarters (accelerating); profit over the last 12 months grew +91.6%, against +37.1% a year (accelerating). ## How much of every $100 of sales does McCormick keep? McCormick & Company, Incorporated's operating margin was 17.8% in the Aug 2026 quarter, 0.7 percentage points higher than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between 14.6% and 17.5%. The latest quarter is above every full year in that period. Why the margin moved: operating margin changed +0.7 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed +1.8 points. So the gain came mostly from the gross margin, which means input costs and prices charged. ## Is McCormick's profit turning into cash? Over the last 3 years, 138% of McCormick & Company, Incorporated's reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY25 it brought in $962 M of operating cash against $789 M of profit. After $222 M of spending on assets, $740 M was left over as free cash. Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year. Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason. What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building. ## Where does McCormick's cash go? McCormick & Company, Incorporated does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent $761 M on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 3.7% of FY25 revenue a year. Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn. Spending on assets: $761 M over the last 3 years. In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns. ## What is McCormick's P/E ratio, and how does it compare with its own history? McCormick & Company, Incorporated's P/E is 8.7×, near the low end of its own history: it has been lower only 8% of the time. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 26.7×, over 4.4 years of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth. Why the multiple is where it is: over the past year earnings per share moved +0.3% while the price moved −25.4%. Earnings did better than the price, which pulled the multiple down within its own range. Where the price move came from: over 3 years the price moved −9.7% a year; about +32.1% a year came from earnings growth and about −41.8 percentage points from the multiple (the market paying less). The split is approximate (price return minus earnings growth). It shows how much of the move came from the market paying a different multiple. In short: the multiple is low against its own past, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple. ## Is the McCormick business getting better or worse? McCormick & Company, Incorporated's business is giving mixed signals. Growth has been steadily positive, but ROCE at 10.8% is below the 15% level needed to call it steady growth. This is based on 12 quarters of 4 measures. Why it matters: when the lines disagree, each line above matters more than any single label. ## How much does McCormick earn on its capital? McCormick & Company, Incorporated earned a ROE of 14% in FY25. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 2.1 percentage points above its cost of capital, so growth here adds value, not just size. It comes from a 11.5% net margin and 0.52× asset turnover (sales divided by assets). Why the return is what it is (FY25): a 11.5% net margin × 0.52× asset turnover × 2.29× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 13.7% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing is a big part of it. The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: 8.9% − 6.8% = +2.1 percentage points. The 6.8% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. Positive but thin: it creates value with little room for error. ## Does McCormick have too much debt? McCormick & Company, Incorporated has total debt of $5.0 B against shareholder equity of $7.6 B as of Aug 2026, so its debt is 0.66× its equity. Year by year, that ratio went from 1.23 in FY21 to 0.73 in FY25. Keep that borrowing in mind when reading the returns on this page. ## What is the McCormick shareholding pattern? 0.0% of McCormick & Company, Incorporated's tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so very few traders are betting against this stock. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 6.0 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead. It is a single reading at one point in time; we do not have its history. Why it is at this level: the figure does not say who holds the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story. ## How far is McCormick from balance-sheet trouble? For McCormick & Company, Incorporated, the Z-score is 2.06. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is in the grey area between the two. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure. Why it matters: a Z-score of 2.06 is in the grey area, neither clearly safe nor clearly in trouble. ## How does McCormick rank in its industry? There is no score against its industry: McCormick & Company, Incorporated is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Packaged Foods. The score ranks a company within its industry: each measure is scored against the other members. Without that group there is no score, so none is shown. ## Which companies is McCormick compared with? No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison. ## Which companies are close to McCormick in size? McCormick is the 5th largest of 39 Packaged Foods companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 3 November 2026). Just above it: General Mills, Inc., The J. M. Smucker Company and JBS N.V. Just below it: Hormel Foods Corporation, The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. and Darling Ingredients Inc. ### Packaged Foods companies close in size

1. [General Mills, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/gis) $18.2 billion
2. [The J. M. Smucker Company](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/sjm) $13.7 billion
3. [JBS N.V.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/jbs) $13.1 billion
4. McCormick & Company, Incorporated $12.9 billion
5. [Hormel Foods Corporation](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/hrl) $11.7 billion
6. [The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/micc) $11.4 billion
7. [Darling Ingredients Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/dar) $8.5 billion

[All 39 Packaged Foods companies, largest first](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/sectors/packaged-foods#all-companies)

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## What else do people ask about McCormick? ### What were McCormick's latest quarterly results? McCormick & Company, Incorporated reported revenue of $2.0 B and net profit of $97.6 M for the Aug 2026 quarter. Revenue rose 17.4% and profit fell 56.7% compared with a year earlier. Earnings per share were $0.36. The operating margin was 17.8%, 0.7 percentage points higher than a year earlier (as of 3 November 2026). ### What is McCormick's market cap? McCormick & Company, Incorporated's market capitalisation is $12.9 B at a stock price of $47.88. Market cap is the share price times the number of shares, so it changes whenever the price moves (as of 3 November 2026). ### How is McCormick performing? McCormick & Company, Incorporated's share price has been falling for 36 weeks. In its latest quarter, revenue rose 17.4% and profit fell 56.7% compared with a year earlier. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, for 7 weeks running (as of 3 November 2026). ### Will McCormick's stock price go up? This page does not forecast McCormick & Company, Incorporated's stock price. What it shows instead: the stock price is $47.88, and it has been falling for 36 weeks. Its P/E of 8.7× is higher than 8% of its own last 4 years (as of 3 November 2026). ### Where is McCormick in its business cycle? McCormick & Company, Incorporated's FY25 operating margin was 16.1%, against a 5-year range of 14.6% to 17.5%: the middle of its own range, neither a peak nor a low. The latest quarter was 17.8%. Comparing margins with a company's own long history is a good way to see where it is in its cycle (as of 3 November 2026). ### What could break the McCormick story? The main question: yearly earnings per share moved +0.3% while the share price moved −25.4%. On price, this page treats a rise as over when the share price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row (as of 3 November 2026). ### Is McCormick a stock worth studying right now? What the numbers show: McCormick & Company, Incorporated's earnings have grown faster than its share price. Earnings per share grew +0.3% in a year while the price moved −25.4%. The main open question: whether the price catches up with earnings that have already grown. Every number on this page is worked out by code from the published figures, with no forecasts and no price opinions (as of 3 November 2026). ## Lists

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