Jefferies Keeps Their Buy Rating on McCormick & Company (MKC)

In a report released today, Scott Marks CFA from Jefferies reiterated a Buy rating on McCormick & Company, with a price target of $79.00.

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Marks CFA covers the Consumer Defensive sector, focusing on stocks such as Vital Farms, Kraft Heinz, and Flowers Foods. According to TipRanks, Marks CFA has an average return of -7.9% and a 27.03% success rate on recommended stocks.

In addition to Jefferies, McCormick & Company also received a Buy from Bank of America Securities’s Peter Galbo in a report issued on January 5. However, on January 4, TipRanks – Anthropic reiterated a Hold rating on McCormick & Company (NYSE: MKC).

Based on McCormick & Company’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending August 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $1.72 billion and a net profit of $225.5 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $1.68 billion and had a net profit of $223.1 million

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 75 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 November 2025, Brendan Foley, the COB, Pres & CEO of MKC sold 57,144.00 shares for a total of $3,746,360.64.