Stock · DGE.L · Consumer Defensive
United Kingdom · Large Cap · Revenue 12 mo. $19.6B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Diageo plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production, marketing, and distribution of alcoholic beverages in North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, and Africa.
Diageo plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production, marketing, and distribution of alcoholic beverages in North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, and Africa. It offers beer, scotch, gin, vodka, rum, liqueur, raki, wine, cachaça, tequila, brandy, and Chinese white spirit beverages, as well as Irish, Canadian, Chinese US, and Indian whisky. The company also provides ready-to-drink and non-alcoholic beverages. Its principal brands include Johnnie Walker, Don Julio, Guinness, Crown Royal, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Buchanan's, Casamigos, Shui Jing Fang, and McDowell's. The company was formerly known as Guinness plc and changed its name to Diageo plc in February 1998. The company was incorporated in 1886 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
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Summary
45.9 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €2.8B (2026), it supports €31.5B. The remaining €17.3B of the market value assume it grows 6.2% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
6.2%
no growth afterwards
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q3 2026
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 15.80% | 12.35% | Rank 62 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 35.13% | 20.14% | Rank 77 |
| EBIT margin | 28.36% | 9.44% | Rank 93 |
| FCF margin | 16.27% | 6.71% | Rank 89 |
| Gross margin | 59.47% | 35.78% | Rank 91 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | −3.56% | 2.12% | Rank 18 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | −26.60% | 5.20% | Rank 12 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | −7.36% | 6.07% | Rank 15 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 6.09% | 3.77% | Rank 81 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 3.07% | 4.25% | Rank 26 |
| FCF yield | 5.81% | 5.05% | Rank 62 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 3.83 | 1.51 | Rank 13 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 13.51 | 16.74 | Rank 72 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 2.45% | 3.24% | Rank 47 |
| Share price, 6 months | 22.41% | 11.30% | Rank 81 |
| Share price, 3 months | 10.30% | 9.00% | Rank 59 |
| Distance from 52-week high | 0.00% | −7.96% | Rank 98 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −3.45% | −0.99% | Rank 76 |
| Change in share countlower is better | 0.13% | −0.62% | Rank 11 |
| Dividend streak in years | 1 | 5 | Rank 20 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −2.70% | 0.22% | Rank 14 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 23.21% | 41.95% | Rank 19 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 3.21 | 1.96 | Rank 19 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 2.03 | 0.67 | Rank 16 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 32.20% | 25.82% | Rank 14 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF, $B | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 12.1 | 29.5% | 2.6 | 2.52B | 7.9 |
| 2018 | 12.2 | 31.4% | 2.5 | 2.50B | 9.0 |
| 2019 | 12.9 | 31.6% | 2.6 | 2.43B | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 11.8 | 29.6% | 1.6 | 2.35B | 13.5 |
| 2021 | 12.7 | 29.3% | 3.0 | 2.35B | 12.0 |
| 2022 | 15.5 | 28.5% | 2.8 | 2.33B | 13.7 |
| 2023 | 20.6 | 27.0% | 1.8 | 2.27B | 15.1 |
| 2024 | 20.3 | 29.6% | 4.6 | 2.24B | 20.4 |
| 2025 | 20.2 | 21.4% | 2.7 | 2.23B | 22.2 |
| 2026 | 19.5 | 28.4% | 3.2 | 2.23B | 20.7 |
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Selected fundamental metrics for Diageo PLC.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 32.6 | 22.8 |
| P/B ratio | 5.2 | 2.6 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 15.8% | 12.3% |
| Equity ratio | 23.2% | 42.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 2.03 | 0.67 |
| Dividend yield | 2.0% | 2.6% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| DGE.L | Diageo PLCthis page | |
| 000858.SZ | Wuliangye Yibin Co Ltd | locked |
| 600809.SS | Shanxi Xinghuacun Fen Wine Factory Co Ltd | locked |
| RI.PA | Pernod Ricard S.A. | locked |
| 000568.SZ | Luzhou Lao Jiao Co Ltd | locked |
| BF-A | Brown-Forman Corporation | locked |
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