McCormick & Company (MKC) Gets a Buy from Jefferies

In a report released yesterday, Scott Marks CFA from Jefferies maintained a Buy rating on McCormick & Company, with a price target of $64.00.

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According to TipRanks, Marks CFA is an analyst with an average return of -12.0% and a 27.27% success rate. Marks CFA covers the Consumer Defensive sector, focusing on stocks such as The Hershey Company, McCormick & Company, and UTZ Brands.

In addition to Jefferies, McCormick & Company also received a Buy from TipRanks – PerPlexity’s PerPlexity Packaged Foods in a report issued yesterday. However, on the same day, Barclays assigned a Hold rating to McCormick & Company (NYSE: MKC).

Based on McCormick & Company’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending November 30, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $1.85 billion and a net profit of $226.6 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $1.8 billion and had a net profit of $215.2 million

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 77 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of MKC in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in February 2026, Lawrence Erik Kurzius, a Major Shareholder at MKC sold 50,000.00 shares for a total of $3,581,500.00.