MKCMcCormick & Company
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though earnings fully cash-backed (1.5×).
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Operating profit is falling even as sales grow, costs are outrunning the top line.
Margin-driven, fat margins on slower asset turns. ROE 19% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is MKC?
McCormick & Company earns 6.6% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 2.4 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 13%
Operating margin · Packaged Foods median 7.7% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.52×
Cash conversion · 1.05× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +0.04%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 18% |
| FY2021 | 16% |
| FY2022 | 14% |
| FY2023 | 14% |
| FY2024 | 16% |
| FY2025 | 16% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 39%
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 13%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 19%
- Free cash flow margin
- 12%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $7.69B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $927M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $1.49B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 6.6%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Customers and suppliers
Who buys from MKC and who it buys from, as the companies report it.
- WMTWalmart12%
Share of revenue · FY2025 10-K
- PEPPepsiCo12%
Share of revenue · FY2025 10-K
None disclosed.
A company has to disclose every customer behind 10% or more of its revenue. Each share comes from the latest annual report of the company that states it and shows on both companies’ pages; MKC’s own figures are from its FY2025 10-K. Smaller customers and suppliers go unreported.
Packaged Foods
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