MKC-V McCormick & Company, Incorporated — dividend yield, history & ex-dividend dates
McCormick & Company, founded in 1889 and headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, is a leading entity in the food industry, specializing in the production, marketing, and distribution of spices, seasoning blends, condiments, and a diverse range of other culinary flavorings. The company's operations are divided into two main segments: Consumer and Flavor Solutions. The Consumer segment provides individual consumers with an extensive selection of spices, herbs, seasonings, sauces, condiments, and desserts. This division boasts a wide array of globally recognized brands, including McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Lawry's Cholula Hot Sauce, Gourmet Garden, Club House, and OLD BAY throughout the Americas; Ducros, Schwartz, Kamis, Drogheria & Alimentari, and Vahiné across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; McCormick and DaQiao in China; and McCormick, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden in Australia. Additionally, it features popular regional and ethnic brands such as Zatarain's, Stubb's, Thai Kitchen, and Simply Asia, and supplies products under private labels. Its distribution network encompasses a broad spectrum of retailers, such as grocery, mass merchandise, warehouse clubs, discount, drug, and e-commerce stores, reaching customers both directly and through wholesale distributors. The Flavor Solutions segment, in contrast, caters to business clients, supplying multinational food manufacturers and foodservice providers. Its offerings include bespoke seasoning blends, spices, herbs, condiments, advanced coating systems, and intricate compound flavors. This segment delivers its products to foodservice customers directly or through various distributors.
Dividend Snapshot
Research Scores
Scores describe this security's published financial data on a 0–100 scale using the formulas on our methodology pages. They are the same for every reader, are not a probability or a forecast, and are not a recommendation. Past dividend growth does not guarantee future increases. Report a data error.
How the Dividend Safety Score is built for MKC-V
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings payout ratio | Earnings payout ratio 39% (TTM to Feb 28, 2026) | 100 | 20% |
| FCF payout ratio | FCF payout ratio 89% (TTM to Feb 28, 2026) | 42 | 25% |
| Net debt / EBITDA | Net debt / EBITDA 3.5x (TTM to Feb 28, 2026) | 47 | 15% |
| Interest coverage | Interest coverage 5.7x (TTM to Feb 28, 2026) | 70 | 10% |
| Dividend record | 22 years of uninterrupted regular payments | 86 | 20% |
| Earnings stability | Net income positive in 5 of the last 5 fiscal years (FY2021–FY2025) | 100 | 10% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
How the Dividend Growth Score is built for MKC-V
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-year dividend growth | 5-year dividend CAGR 7.6% (2020–2025) | 88 | 25% |
| Consecutive annual increases | 21 consecutive annual increases (through 2025) | 95 | 20% |
| Payout headroom | Headroom from the earnings payout ratio 39% (TTM to Feb 28, 2026) | 100 | 20% |
| Earnings per share growth (3 years) | EPS CAGR 5.2% (FY2022–FY2025) | 76 | 15% |
| Revenue growth (3 years) | Revenue CAGR 2.5% (FY2022–FY2025) | 62 | 10% |
| 10-year dividend growth | 10-year dividend CAGR 8.4% (2015–2025) | 92 | 10% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
How the Dividend Value Score is built for MKC-V
| Input | Value | Points | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yield vs own history | Current yield at the 100th percentile of its 120 month-end yields | 100 | 40% |
| P/E vs own 5-year median | P/E 7.9 is 0.30x its 5-year median of 26.5 | 100 | 25% |
| FCF yield | FCF yield 5.5% (TTM to Feb 28, 2026) | 74 | 20% |
| P/E vs peers | P/E 7.9 vs peer median 23.2 (0.34x; 55 corporation / Consumer Defensive securities) | 100 | 15% |
Inputs that are not available are left out and the remaining weights are scaled up. Profile: ordinary company. Formula version 2026-10-19.4.
Key Metrics
Current Yield
4.17%
At the Oct 29, 2026 price
The annual dividend as a percentage of the share price. A 3% yield is about $3 of dividends a year for every $100 invested at today's price.Annualized Dividend
$1.9200
The latest declared regular dividend scaled to a full year by how often it's paid (for semi-annual payers, the latest two payments), adjusted for stock splits. A $0.25 quarterly dividend annualizes to $1.00. Special dividends are excluded.Frequency
Q Quarterly
How often the dividend is paid, read from the dates of recent payments: Q = quarterly (4x a year), M = monthly, S = semi-annual, A = annual.RSI (14)
40
As of Oct 29, 2026
Relative Strength Index (0-100), a price-momentum gauge. Above 70 is often called 'overbought', below 30 'oversold'. A technical signal, not a dividend metric.52-Week Range
$45.54 – $72.00
Closes through Oct 23, 2026
The lowest and highest price over the past year, showing where today's price sits in its recent range.Payout Ratio (TTM)
34.07%
12 months to Aug 31, 2026 (Q3 FY2026)
The share of earnings paid out as dividends over the trailing twelve months (TTM): dividends paid divided by net income across the company's four most recent reported quarters, dated by the latest quarter end. A fiscal-year tag such as FY2025 means only annual figures were available. Lower leaves more cushion; above 100% means paying out more than the company earned. It shows n/a for funds and when net income over the period was negative; for REITs and BDCs it is marked EPS-based, since they are judged on FFO/AFFO or net investment income instead.Years Paying
22
How many years of payments we have on record. This can understate very long histories where our data doesn't reach far enough back.Price / Book (TTM)
1.85
Price as of Oct 25, 2026; latest reported book value
Price-to-book ratio: the share price on the date shown divided by the latest reported book value per share. A rough valuation gauge, most useful for asset-heavy sectors like REITs, banks and insurers.S.A.F.E. Dividend Read
Quote & Key Data
Dividend Growth
How often a record like this ends in a cut
MKC-V has raised its annual dividend in 21 separate years since December 2003, which ranks 412 among the 2,430 payers with a comparable record in our dataset. No year in that span saw the annual total fall by more than a fifth.
Of the 878 companies we track with 10 to 24 years of increases, 661 — 75 per cent — also have at least one year in which the dividend fell by more than 20 per cent. Across every company with twenty years of comparable history, only 277 of 1078 (26 per cent) have never cut. A long record of increases is common; a record with no cut anywhere in it is not.
Measured from annual totals using split-adjusted amounts, comparing only consecutive years with the same number of payments — a stock split and a payment shifting across a year boundary both look like cuts otherwise. The current year is excluded as incomplete. How we measure a cut, and what the corrections change. Figures are for information only, not a view on any security.
Why the Yield Moved (90 Days)
MKC-V's dividend yield rose from 3.71% to 4.17% over the past ~90 days (+0.46 pp). Of that move, +0.07 pp came from changes in the dividend rate and +0.39 pp from the share price ($50.95 on Jul 31, 2026 → $46.05 on Oct 29, 2026). A yield that rises because the price fell is not an improvement in the payout itself.
Yield vs Its Own History
Across 273 daily observations over the past 13 months (through Oct 23, 2026), MKC-V's current yield is higher than approximately 64% of them. Our stored price history for MKC-V covers the past 13 months; 3- and 5-year averages are not yet computable from it and are deliberately not shown.
Adjusted Price History
Dividend History
Dividend Payment History
Ex-dividend calendar →| Amount | Type | Declared | Ex-Date | Record | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.4800 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 13, 2026 | Oct 13, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 |
| $0.4800 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 06, 2026 | Jul 06, 2026 | Jul 20, 2026 |
| $0.4800 Q | Regular | N/A | Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 27, 2026 |
| $0.4800 I | Regular | N/A | Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | Jan 12, 2026 |
| $0.4500 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 14, 2025 | Oct 14, 2025 | Oct 27, 2025 |
| $0.4500 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 07, 2025 | Jul 07, 2025 | Jul 21, 2025 |
| $0.4500 Q | Regular | N/A | Apr 07, 2025 | Apr 07, 2025 | Apr 21, 2025 |
| $0.4500 Q | Regular | N/A | Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 13, 2025 |
| $0.4200 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 07, 2024 | Oct 07, 2024 | Oct 21, 2024 |
| $0.4200 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 08, 2024 | Jul 08, 2024 | Jul 22, 2024 |
| $0.4200 Q | Regular | N/A | Apr 05, 2024 | Apr 08, 2024 | Apr 22, 2024 |
| $0.4200 Q | Regular | Nov 30, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | Jan 08, 2024 |
| $0.3900 Q | Regular | Oct 02, 2023 | Oct 06, 2023 | Oct 10, 2023 | Oct 24, 2023 |
| $0.3900 Q | Regular | Jun 29, 2023 | Jul 07, 2023 | Jul 10, 2023 | Jul 24, 2023 |
| $0.3900 Q | Regular | Mar 30, 2023 | Apr 06, 2023 | Apr 10, 2023 | Apr 24, 2023 |
| $0.3900 Q | Regular | Nov 29, 2022 | Dec 29, 2022 | Dec 30, 2022 | Jan 09, 2023 |
| $0.3700 Q | Regular | Sep 29, 2022 | Oct 07, 2022 | Oct 11, 2022 | Oct 25, 2022 |
| $0.3700 Q | Regular | Jun 29, 2022 | Jul 08, 2022 | Jul 11, 2022 | Jul 25, 2022 |
| $0.3700 Q | Regular | Apr 01, 2022 | Apr 08, 2022 | Apr 11, 2022 | Apr 25, 2022 |
| $0.3700 Q | Regular | Dec 02, 2021 | Dec 30, 2021 | Dec 31, 2021 | Jan 10, 2022 |
| $0.3400 Q | Regular | Sep 30, 2021 | Oct 08, 2021 | Oct 12, 2021 | Oct 26, 2021 |
| $0.3400 Q | Regular | Jul 01, 2021 | Jul 09, 2021 | Jul 12, 2021 | Jul 26, 2021 |
| $0.3400 Q | Regular | Mar 31, 2021 | Apr 09, 2021 | Apr 12, 2021 | Apr 26, 2021 |
| $0.3400 Q | Regular | Nov 24, 2020 | Dec 30, 2020 | Dec 31, 2020 | Jan 11, 2021 |
| $0.6200 Q | Regular | Sep 22, 2020 | Oct 02, 2020 | Oct 05, 2020 | Oct 19, 2020 |
| $0.6200 Q | Regular | Jun 23, 2020 | Jul 02, 2020 | Jul 06, 2020 | Jul 20, 2020 |
| $0.6200 Q | Regular | Apr 03, 2020 | Apr 09, 2020 | Apr 13, 2020 | Apr 27, 2020 |
| $0.6200 Q | Regular | N/A | Dec 30, 2019 | Dec 31, 2019 | Jan 13, 2020 |
| $0.5700 Q | Regular | Sep 24, 2019 | Oct 04, 2019 | Oct 07, 2019 | Oct 21, 2019 |
| $0.5700 Q | Regular | Jun 25, 2019 | Jul 05, 2019 | Jul 08, 2019 | Jul 22, 2019 |
| $0.5700 Q | Regular | Mar 27, 2019 | Apr 05, 2019 | Apr 08, 2019 | Apr 22, 2019 |
| $0.5700 Q | Regular | Nov 27, 2018 | Dec 28, 2018 | Dec 31, 2018 | Jan 14, 2019 |
| $0.5200 Q | Regular | Sep 26, 2018 | Oct 05, 2018 | Oct 09, 2018 | Oct 23, 2018 |
| $0.5200 Q | Regular | Jun 26, 2018 | Jul 06, 2018 | Jul 09, 2018 | Jul 23, 2018 |
| $0.5200 Q | Regular | Mar 28, 2018 | Apr 06, 2018 | Apr 09, 2018 | Apr 23, 2018 |
| $0.5200 Q | Regular | Nov 28, 2017 | Dec 28, 2017 | Dec 29, 2017 | Jan 16, 2018 |
| $0.4700 Q | Regular | Sep 27, 2017 | Oct 06, 2017 | Oct 10, 2017 | Oct 24, 2017 |
| $0.4700 Q | Regular | Jun 28, 2017 | Jul 06, 2017 | Jul 10, 2017 | Jul 24, 2017 |
| $0.4700 Q | Regular | Mar 30, 2017 | Apr 06, 2017 | Apr 10, 2017 | Apr 24, 2017 |
| $0.4700 Q | Regular | Nov 30, 2016 | Dec 28, 2016 | Dec 30, 2016 | Jan 17, 2017 |
| $0.4300 Q | Regular | Sep 28, 2016 | Oct 06, 2016 | Oct 11, 2016 | Oct 25, 2016 |
| $0.4300 Q | Regular | Jun 29, 2016 | Jul 07, 2016 | Jul 11, 2016 | Jul 25, 2016 |
| $0.4300 Q | Regular | Mar 31, 2016 | Apr 07, 2016 | Apr 11, 2016 | Apr 25, 2016 |
| $0.4300 Q | Regular | Nov 30, 2015 | Dec 29, 2015 | Dec 31, 2015 | Jan 15, 2016 |
| $0.4000 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 08, 2015 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.4000 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 09, 2015 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.4000 Q | Regular | N/A | Apr 01, 2015 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.4000 I | Regular | N/A | Dec 29, 2014 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3700 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 08, 2014 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3700 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 02, 2014 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3700 Q | Regular | N/A | Apr 03, 2014 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3700 Q | Regular | N/A | Dec 27, 2013 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3400 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 03, 2013 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3400 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 03, 2013 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3400 Q | Regular | N/A | Apr 11, 2013 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3400 Q | Regular | N/A | Dec 27, 2012 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3100 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 03, 2012 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3100 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 05, 2012 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3100 Q | Regular | N/A | Apr 04, 2012 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.3100 Q | Regular | N/A | Dec 28, 2011 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2800 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 05, 2011 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2800 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 07, 2011 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2800 Q | Regular | N/A | Apr 07, 2011 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2800 Q | Regular | N/A | Dec 29, 2010 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2600 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 06, 2010 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2600 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 01, 2010 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2600 Q | Regular | N/A | Apr 08, 2010 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2600 Q | Regular | N/A | Dec 29, 2009 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2400 Q | Regular | N/A | Sep 30, 2009 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2400 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 01, 2009 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2400 Q | Regular | N/A | Apr 02, 2009 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2400 Q | Regular | N/A | Dec 29, 2008 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 01, 2008 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 02, 2008 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | N/A | Apr 10, 2008 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2200 Q | Regular | N/A | Dec 26, 2007 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2000 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 03, 2007 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2000 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 03, 2007 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2000 Q | Regular | N/A | Apr 04, 2007 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.2000 Q | Regular | N/A | Dec 27, 2006 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1800 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 04, 2006 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1800 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 05, 2006 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1800 Q | Regular | N/A | Mar 30, 2006 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1800 Q | Regular | N/A | Dec 28, 2005 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1600 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 05, 2005 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1600 Q | Regular | N/A | Jul 06, 2005 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1600 Q | Regular | N/A | Mar 31, 2005 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1600 Q | Regular | N/A | Dec 29, 2004 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1400 Q | Regular | N/A | Oct 06, 2004 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1400 S | Regular | N/A | Jun 30, 2004 | N/A | N/A |
| $0.1400 I | Regular | N/A | Dec 29, 2003 | N/A | N/A |
Peer Comparison
Selected Packaged Foods dividend payers we cover, strongest DividendRank first — for context, not a recommendation.
| Ticker | Name | Yield | 5-Yr Growth | Streak | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MKC | McCormick & Company, Incorporated | 4.17% | 7.6% | 40 yrs | 92 |
| INGR | Ingredion Incorporated | 3.52% | 4.9% | 15 yrs | 90 |
| GPAGF | Gruma, S.A.B. de C.V. | 2.42% | 3.3% | 0 yrs | 84 |
| TSUKF | Toyo Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. | 2.26% | 12.4% | 3 yrs | 81 |
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MKC-V dividend — frequently asked questions
Does McCormick & Company, Incorporated pay a dividend?
Yes. McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC-V) currently pays a dividend. The annualized dividend is about $1.92 per share, a yield of approximately 4.17%.
What is McCormick & Company, Incorporated's dividend yield?
McCormick & Company, Incorporated's dividend yield is approximately 4.17%, based on the most recent regular payment annualized against the current share price. Yields move as the share price changes.
How often does McCormick & Company, Incorporated pay dividends?
McCormick & Company, Incorporated pays dividends quarterly — 4 times per year.
How long has McCormick & Company, Incorporated paid dividends?
McCormick & Company, Incorporated has 22 years of dividend payments on record, and has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years.
Data updated Oct 29, 2026. This research page is generated from Dividendly's structured market and dividend dataset using the approach described on our methodology and data sources pages. Data is automatically validated using defined rules and may also be periodically reviewed. Research only, not investment advice. Spotted a data error? Report it.