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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

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

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
10B20B
2015201820212024
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%
201520192024
ROE
FY2024 · ROE 24.0%
20%40%
201520192024
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin43.5%
Operating margin15.5%
Net margin9.1%
EBITDAGBP 6.1B

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 ·
1B2B
201520162017201820192020
Dividends paidUSD 2.3B
Net buybacks·
Share of profit90.5%
Consecutive raises·

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—not applicable◌not available in our data
DEO, 10-year financial record
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◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 5 failures · 8 divergences in 44 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 2 of the 10 fiscal years we could check. 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. 18 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2016. 10 checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2017. Eight checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2015.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency5 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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