Brown-Forman B (BF5B) Stock Price & Analysis
BF5B Stock Chart & Stats
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- Market Cap
- CHF 10.96B
- Enterprise Value
- CHF 15.32B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- CHF 301.00M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- CHF 2.44B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 18.6
- Beta
- 0.73
- Next Earnings
- Dec 09, 2026 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 0.38
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 3.10%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Innovation And RTG Growth
Innovation is broadening the portfolio beyond core whiskey, with RTDs and flavored extensions creating new occasions and offsetting weakness in tequila and used barrels. This supports growth diversification and gives Brown-Forman additional avenues to build distribution and consumer relevance over the next several quarters.
Cash Generation And Margins
Strong gross margins and cash conversion provide Brown-Forman with internally generated funding for brand investment, dividends, and operational initiatives. Because free cash flow closely tracks earnings, the company retains useful financial flexibility even while revenue growth and margins face cyclical and cost-related pressure.
Core Brand Resilience
Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey remains the portfolio's stabilizing foundation, demonstrating relative pricing and demand resilience in a weak U.S. spirits market. This durable brand equity supports premium positioning, protects mix, and provides a base from which Brown-Forman can extend innovations and international growth.
Bears Say
Deteriorating Revenue Growth
The sharp TTM revenue decline indicates that weaker volume, pricing mix, or market demand is materially offsetting Brown-Forman's strong underlying margin structure. If this deterioration persists, lower operating leverage could constrain earnings growth and reduce the resources available for sustained brand investment.
Operating Income And Cost Pressure
Management expects operating income to decline despite broadly stable organic sales, showing that costs and mix are likely to absorb commercial benefits. Higher-cost whiskey inventory, inflation, freight, aluminum, foreign exchange, and lower production volumes could keep pressure on margins through the fiscal year.
CEO Succession Risk
A planned CEO transition creates execution and continuity risk during a period when Brown-Forman is addressing weak demand, portfolio pressure, and operational complexity. Although the board is considering internal and external candidates and Whiting will advise the transition, the timetable and eventual leadership approach remain uncertain.
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Company Description
Brown-Forman B
Brown-Forman Corporation, along with its subsidiaries, operates globally within the alcoholic beverage industry. The company is actively involved in the production, distillation, bottling, international trade (importing and exporting), marketing, and sale of a diverse portfolio of alcoholic products. Its extensive offerings encompass a wide variety of spirits, wines, and whiskey products, including specialty whiskey spirits and flavored whiskey liqueurs. The range also features convenient ready-to-drink and ready-to-pour options, pre-mixed cocktails, vodkas, tequilas, champagnes, brandy, bourbons, and other liqueurs. These beverages are primarily marketed under prominent brands such as Jack Daniel's, Reserve, Old Forester, Coopers' Craft, Herradura, el Jimador, New Mix, Korbel Champagnes, Sonoma-Cutrer, Finlandia, GlenDronach, Benriach, Glenglassaugh, Chambord, Slane, and Fords Gin. Beyond beverage sales, Brown-Forman also engages in the sale of used barrels, bulk whiskey, and wine, in addition to offering contract bottling services. The company's distribution model involves reaching retail customers and end consumers through independent distributors or state governments, while directly supplying retailers, wholesalers, and provincial governments. With a history dating back to its founding in 1870, Brown-Forman Corporation is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and conducts substantial operations across the United States, Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and numerous other international markets.
- Sector
- Consumerdefensive
- Industry
- Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries
- CEO
- Lawson E. Whiting
- Employees
- 4,900
- Website
- www.brown-forman.com
- Address
- 850 Dixie Highway, Louisville, KY, 40210, US
Brown-Forman B (BF5B) Earnings & Revenues
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Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call was positive overall. First-quarter performance was largely in line with expectations, organic operating income, EPS, and cash flow grew, innovation and RTDs generated meaningful momentum, emerging international markets grew 9%, and management reaffirmed full-year guidance with greater confidence toward the favorable end of the operating-income range. These strengths outweighed significant but acknowledged pressures from used barrel sales, tequila, developed-market demand, higher future input costs, whiskey inventory mix, and certain brands and channels.
View all CH:BF5B earnings summariesBF5B Net sales Breakdown
- 73.85% Whiskey
- 13.80% Ready-to-Drink
- 6.39% Tequila
- 0.84% Non-branded and bulk
- 5.12% Rest of portfolio
