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Brown Forman $BF-B

🫧 Edgar looked up BROWN FORMAN CORP ($BF-B). Last filing: 10-Q, 2026-09-02. 11 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.

🔖 Exposure: revenue $5.1B (FY2026), total debt $2.4B. Experience: revenue up 0.5% on the year, up 0.0% a year over 4 years; operating margin 19.7%, down from 21.9%. Soundness: equity 50.9% of assets, return on equity 17.8%, payout 59.7% of profit, dividend per share up 3 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $4.0B and $6.0B next year (method v3, set from 4,599 SEC company-years; on a year the method never saw, 83% landed inside). A range, not a forecast. Against peers (9 filers, $50M+ revenue, beverages): operating margin 19.7% against a 12.2% median; growth 0.5% against 1.9%.

BROWN FORMAN CORP against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 12.2%19.7%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 1.9%0.5%Equity of assetsPeer median 30.7%50.9%Return on equityPeer median 12.8%17.8%Payout of profit59.7%Gold tick: the median of 8–9 peers with $50M+ revenue in beverages
Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit59.7% paid out40.3% keptHanded back per share$0.915up 3 years runningGrowth its own profit can fund7.2%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed0.5%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

The figures, as filed

Fiscal year end2026-04-30
Revenue$5.1B
Revenue, on the year0.5%
Revenue, a year over the record0.0%
Operating margin19.7%
Operating margin, prior year21.9%
Net margin14.1%
Research and developmentnot filed separately
Free cash flow$893M
Cash$308M
Total debt$2.4B
Equity of assets50.9%
Return on equity17.8%
Payout of profit59.7%
Dividend per share$0.915 · up 3 years running
Audited years read5

Peers: the median of 9 filers with $50M+ revenue in beverages.

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