In recent trading session, McCormick & Co., Inc (NYSE:MKC) saw 1.33 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.68. Company’s recent per share price level of $77.61 trading at $3.97 or 5.38% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $20.81B. That most recent trading price of MKC’s stock is at a discount of -11.12% from its 52-week high price of $86.24 and is indicating a premium of 13.83% from its 52-week low price of $66.88. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 2.13 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 2.35 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For McCormick & Co., Inc (MKC), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.59. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 5 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 2 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 3 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.65 in the current quarter.
McCormick & Co., Inc (NYSE:MKC) trade information
Upright in the green today for gaining 5.38%, in the last five days MKC remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 06/26/25 when the stock touched $77.61 price level, adding 0.7% to its value on the day. McCormick & Co., Inc’s shares saw a change of 12.15% in year-to-date performance and have moved 6.02% in past 5-day. McCormick & Co., Inc (NYSE:MKC) showed a performance of 8.08% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 4.98 million shares which calculate 2.04 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 77 to the stock, which implies a fall of -0.79% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 77 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 77. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 0.79% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 0.79% for stock’s current value.
McCormick & Co., Inc (MKC) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 1.35% from the last financial year’s standing.
8 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 1.66B for the same. And 8 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 1.71B in the next quarter. Company posted 1.64B and 1.68B of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 2.22% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 2.40% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 6.50%.
MKC Dividends
McCormick & Co., Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Mar-25 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 2.24%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.74 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 1.8%.
McCormick & Co., Inc (NYSE:MKC)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.02% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 90.62 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 90.64%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 90.62% institutions for McCormick & Co., Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at MKC for having 31.22 million shares of worth $2.21 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 11.6231 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 19.39 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.2198 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $1.38 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 7.96 shares of worth $617.62 million or 3.15% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 7.02 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $544.51 million in the company or a holder of 2.78% of company’s stock.
