QualityDipStocks / Consumer Staples · Beverages
Diageo DEO
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 9% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen. No fair value estimate for now: there isn’t enough data.
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- —
- Off 52-wk high
- −9%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.24
4 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $93.44
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$72.47−22.4%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$93.44you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$102.14+9.3%
Fair value estimate
No estimate for DEO: Capital spending isn't tagged for the latest period in SEC XBRL data. We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much DEO moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 2.6× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.24
- Volatility
- 33% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.09
- Correlation QQQ
- −0.06
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 4 of 5
Cash returnsDividend yield of 3.9% ($2.0B paid over 12 months).
ProfitabilityReturn on invested capital of 20%, above the 9.5% discount rate our DCF uses.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 18% over the last 12 months.
Balance sheetDebt / equity of 0.2×, below the 0.7× median for the 28 Consumer Staples companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to 11.4% in FY2026 from 21.5% in FY2024 (SEC filings).
ProfitabilityReturn on equity fell 24 points in two fiscal years, to 18% in FY2026.
Balance sheetOperating income covers interest only 2.9× over the last 12 months.
GrowthDiluted EPS fell 26% to $0.78 in FY2026.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: sales down vs the year-ago quarter; net debt 3.4× EBITDA (limit 3×).
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Diageo in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Beverages
All fundamentals
P/E 25.9 · ROE 18% · Sales −1%
Valuation
- P/E
- 25.9×Consumer Staples median 21.7×
- Price / FCF
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- FCF yield
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- EV / EBITDA
- 9.2×
- Price / sales
- 1.83×
- Price / book
- 4.67×
- Market cap
- $50.8Blisted
- Enterprise value
- $51.7B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $27.8B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- −0.7%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −0.6%/yrfrom FY2023
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $0.78
- EPS growth, last FY
- −26.3%
- Net income, 12 months
- $2.0B
- Net income growth
- −23%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 42.1%
- Operating margin
- 11.4%
- Net margin
- 7.1%
- FCF margin
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Return on equity
- 18%
- Return on invested capital
- 20%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $1.5B
- Total debt
- $2.4B
- Net cash
- −$929M
- Debt / equity
- 0.23×
- Interest coverage
- 2.9×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- FCF growth, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Dividend yield
- 3.92%$2.0B paid
- Payout ratio
- 102%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- n/ano quarterly diluted share count
- Stock-based comp
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From Diageo’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
FCF value $146.69
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 57 · 5 days −2.6%
The business
FCF $3.2B · Sales −3%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$3.2B
- Free-cash-flow yield6.3%
- Free-cash-flow margin16%
- Gross margin60%
- Operating margin16%
- Return on invested capital8%
- Return on equity16%
- Sales growth (last fiscal year vs prior)−3%
- Net debt / EBITDA3.4×
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
DEO is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 333 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.