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Diageo PLC DEO

10 fiscal years on record · GBP · FY2024 reported · SEC filings only
$28.0B
▲ 0.3% YoY
$2.5B
▼ 39.1% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Diageo sells spirits and beer in nearly 180 countries around the world. Its brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Buchanan's, Smirnoff, Ketel One, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Casamigos, Tanqueray and Guinness. The principal executive office is at 16 Great Marlborough Street in London, England. The parent company is incorporated as a public limited company in England and Wales. The business that is now Diageo plc was incorporated as Arthur Guinness Son and Company Limited on 21 October 1886. The Diageo group was formed in December 1997 by the merger of the Grand Metropolitan Public Limited Company and Guinness plc groups.

Written from the business description in DIAGEO plc's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 14 August 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 28.0B
Revenue, FY2024 · full 10-year series below
Revenue £B Net income £B
FY2020 · Revenue 19.2 · Net income 2.8
8B16B2015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Compound annual growth
−2.0%
−16.8%
−16.9%
+0.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
9 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2024 · Operating 15.5% · Net 9.1%
10%20%2015201620172018201920202021202220232024
ROE
FY2024 · ROE 24.0%
20%40%2015201620172018201920202021202220232024

Each GBP of equity produced 24 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
GBP 2.3B
returned in FY2024 · dividends + net buybacks
Net buybacks £B Dividends £B
FY2020 · Dividends 1.6 · Net buybacks —
0.8B1.6B201520162017201820192020

USD 2.3B in dividends — 91% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 49.3B
EquityUSD 11.1B
CashUSD 2.2B
Gross debtUSD 21.9B
Net debtUSD 19.7B
Current ratio1.63×

Net debt stands at 177% of equity.

The 10-year record
10 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · GBP
row low → row highnegative
Metric 2024202320222021202020192018201720162015
Revenue £B····19.217.719.318.4··
Operating income £B····3.72.14.03.73.62.8
EBITDA £B6.16.56.87.04.24.04.44.23.93.3
Income tax £B····0.90.60.90.60.70.5
Net income £B····2.81.53.23.02.82.4
EPS, diluted £····1.130.601.301.211.050.89
Dividend / sh £··········
Payout %915446526211751525561
ROE %24.041.946.4·38.918.634.529.826.9·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 5 failures · 8 divergences in 44 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 2 of 19 fiscal years. 8 of those reconciliations are divergences — the figures exist but don't fit the formula this check expects; that isn't the same as an error. 51 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente5 failures8 divergent
ActivityBeverages
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code X0
Fiscal year endsJune 30
Data on record since2015

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