Stock · SJM · Consumer Defensive
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1994 · Revenue 12 mo. $9.2B
Price as of 11/06/2026
The J. M. Smucker Company manufactures and markets branded food and beverage products worldwide.
The J. M. Smucker Company manufactures and markets branded food and beverage products worldwide. The company operates through five segments: U.S. Retail Coffee, U.S. Retail Frozen Handheld and Spreads, U.S. Retail Pet Foods, Sweet Baked Snacks, and Away From Home. It offers coffee, sweet baked goods, pet snacks, frozen handheld products, peanut butter, cat and dog food, fruit and specialty spreads, cookies, frozen sandwiches and snacks, hot beverages, portion control products, toppings and syrups, baking mixes and ingredients, and flour. The company provides its products under the Folgers, Café Bustelo, Dunkin', Jif, Smucker's, Uncrustables, Meow Mix, Milk-Bone, Pup-Peroni, Canine Carry Outs, Hostess, and 1850 brand names. It sells its products through direct sales and brokers to food retailers, club stores, discount and dollar stores, online retailers, pet specialty stores, distributors, drug stores, military commissaries, mass merchandisers, supermarket chains, national mass retailers, convenience stores, vending channels, and foodservice distributors and operators. The J. M. Smucker Company was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Orrville, Ohio.
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Summary
48.7 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 €1B (2026), it supports €11.5B. The remaining €848.2M of the market value assume it grows 1.0% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
1.0%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 7.3×, below its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 8.7× to 13.2×, median 10.8×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
3 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., Net debt, Shares outstanding
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 | −2.50% | 12.35% | Rank 6 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 11.32% | 20.14% | Rank 20 |
| EBIT margin | 3.98% | 9.44% | Rank 20 |
| FCF margin | 12.77% | 6.71% | Rank 84 |
| Gross margin | 33.53% | 35.78% | Rank 44 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 3.72% | 2.12% | Rank 62 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank | – | 5.20% | |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank | – | 6.07% | |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 3.51% | 3.77% | Rank 45 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | −1.00% | 4.25% | Rank 4 |
| FCF yield | 8.38% | 5.05% | Rank 81 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 2.30 | 1.51 | Rank 34 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 57.81 | 16.74 | Rank 2 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 14.82% | 3.24% | Rank 70 |
| Share price, 6 months | 32.02% | 11.30% | Rank 97 |
| Share price, 3 months | 13.78% | 9.00% | Rank 73 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −2.13% | −7.96% | Rank 77 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −8.01% | −0.99% | Rank 92 |
| Change in share countlower is better | 0.28% | −0.62% | Rank 7 |
| Dividend streak in years | 16 | 5 | Rank 85 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 4.52% | 0.22% | Rank 94 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 34.18% | 41.95% | Rank 39 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 8.03 | 1.96 | Rank 1 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 1.28 | 0.67 | Rank 30 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 28.72% | 25.82% | Rank 30 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7.4 | 14.1% | $866.6M | 116M | 5.2 |
| 2018 | 7.4 | 14.2% | $896.1M | 114M | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 7.8 | 11.9% | $781.4M | 113M | 5.8 |
| 2020 | 7.8 | 15.7% | $985.5M | 114M | 5.4 |
| 2021 | 8.0 | 17.3% | $1.3B | 112M | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 8.0 | 12.8% | $718.8M | 108M | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 8.5 | 1.9% | $717.0M | 106M | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 8.2 | 16.0% | $642.9M | 104M | 8.5 |
| 2025 | 8.7 | −7.7% | $816.6M | 106M | 7.7 |
| 2026 | 9.1 | 4.0% | $1.2B | 107M | 7.0 |
2 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
The J. M. Smucker Company mainly meets criteria in the Valuation category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
The J. M. Smucker Company is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
2 of 7 rules met
4 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for The J. M. Smucker Company.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | −86.2 | 22.8 |
| P/B ratio | 2.5 | 2.6 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | −2.5% | 12.3% |
| Equity ratio | 34.2% | 42.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 1.28 | 0.67 |
| Dividend yield | 3.4% | 2.6% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| SJM | The J. M. Smucker Companythis page | |
| MKC-V | McCormick & Company Incorporated | locked |
| HRL | Hormel Foods Corporation | Low0.0 |
| GIS | General Mills Inc | Medium5.5 |
| KHC | The Kraft Heinz Company | locked |
| 1216.TW | Uni-President Enterprises Corp | locked |
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