Diageo PLC
Diageo PLC (DEO) is listed on NYSE and classified in Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and has 27,972 employees. The company is worth $53.77B and trades at 31.0x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was $19.64B in fiscal 2026, down 3.0% from the year before. Net income was $1.74B. The share price is 5.9% below its 52-week high of $102.74. It pays a dividend yielding 2.07%. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Tom Gayner (Markel Group), at $110.3M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -53.2% over 5Y.
today you would have $539.62▼ -46.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 4 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $95.11 | $86.27 | $127.13 | $145.66 | |
| P/E | 19.4x | 30.5x | 20.4x | 18.4x | 17.6x |
| P/S | 12.3x | 10.8x | 9.5x | 13.9x | 15.9x |
| P/B | 23.8x | 19.5x | 17.3x | 28.1x | 33.2x |
| EPS | $3.12 | $4.23 | $6.91 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 18.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 19.4 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 11.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 3.7% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Defensive, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABEVAmbev S.a | $3.33 | 17.5x | 2.9x | 0.69% | 18.40% | $51.34B |
| CCEPCOCA-COLA EUROPACIFIC PARTNERS plc | $114.23 | 22.1x | 5.4x | 2.11% | 23.54% | $50.2B |
| KDPKeurig Dr Pepper Inc. | $35.19 | 34.8x | 1.9x | 2.61% | 5.10% | $47.89B |
| FMXMexican Economic Development Inc |
| $8.29 |
| Dividend yield | 3.01% | 2.10% | 4.80% | 3.26% | 2.77% |
| Payout | 62.03% | 64.18% | 97.89% | 59.88% | 48.68% |
| Profit margin | 15.36% | 8.84% | 11.63% | 19.09% | 21.62% |
| ROE | 29.90% | 15.98% | 21.23% | 38.58% | 45.10% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-42.2% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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