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- Price
- $97.70 → $100.28(+2.6%)
- Recent events
- Nov added: 6, 2026: Shareholders passed every resolution at Diageo's annual general meeting on November 5, added: 2026, including the final dividend, which got 99.91% of the votes. Diageo said that Melissa Bethell replaces Susan Kilsby as Chair of the Remuneration Committee from November 6. Kilsby stays on the board as Senior Independent Director. Nov 5, 2026: Diageo said that organic net sales grew 1.4% in Q1 fiscal 2027, the quarter to September 30, 2026, or 0.6% without East African Breweries. North America organic net sales fell 3.6%, with double-digit falls in Don Julio, Casamigos and Crown Royal. Latin America and Caribbean, Asia Pacific, India and Europe, Middle East and Africa grew. Diageo kept its fiscal 2027 guidance, including about $2 billion of free cash flow and leverage near the middle of its 2.5 to 3.0 times range at June 30, 2027, if the sales of East African Breweries and Royal Challengers Bengaluru complete. Oct 13, 2026: Diageo published restated regional results for fiscal 2025 and 2026. The restatement matches its new market and regional operating framework, which applies from fiscal 2027. Sep 23, 2026: Diageo said that Joanne Wilson, now the CFO of WPP, will replace Nik Jhangiani as Chief Financial Officer some time in 2027. Jhangiani stays in the role until the handover. Aug 6, 2026: Diageo reported fiscal 2026 results. Reported net sales fell 3.0% to $19.6 billion, and organic net sales fell 2.0%. Organic operating profit grew 2.0%. Exceptional restructuring costs of $0.9 billion and impairments of $1.5 billion, mostly for Türkiye and the Don Papa brand, cut reported operating profit by 27.2%. Free cash flow rose by $463 million to $3.2 billion, and the full-year dividend was 50 cents per share under the new dividend policy. Aug 6, 2026: At its Capital Markets Day, Diageo set a new strategy and expected about $1 billion of savings over three years, $850 million of it from the new operating framework. For fiscal 2027, it guided broadly flat organic net sales, low-to-mid-single-digit organic operating profit growth and about $2 billion of free cash flow. For fiscal 2027 to 2029, it guided low-single-digit organic net sales growth and mid-single-digit organic operating profit growth a year. May 6, 2026: Diageo said that organic net sales grew 0.3% in the quarter to March 31, 2026. Europe, Latin America and Africa grew strongly, but North America declined high-single-digit because of continued US spirits weakness. Diageo kept its fiscal 2026 guidance.