Price as of close on Nov 3, 2026 · Financials updated Sep 30, 2026
Basics
Sector
Basic Materials
Industry
Agricultural Inputs
Country
United States
Market cap
3.6B USD
Enterprise value
6.0B USD
Full-time employees
5,200
Overall health
Drawback:growing more slowly than most peersgrowing more slowly than peers
Drawback:higher risk than most peers: its share price swings more than most peers’ (beta 1.81 vs a peer median of 0.69) and less short-term liquidity (current ratio 1.22 vs a peer median of 1.76)higher risk: bigger price swings (beta 1.81 vs peers 0.69) and less liquidity (current ratio 1.22 vs peers 1.76)
About average: valuation
Ranks #794 of 1,217 basic materials companies (bottom 35%)
Negative shareholders' equity. Liabilities exceed assets on the balance sheet.
Scotts Miracle-Gro's liabilities exceed its assets on the balance sheet. Large share buybacks can cause this in healthy companies, but so can accumulated losses; either way, debt-based ratios need care.
Profitable, but revenue is shrinking. More profitable than most peers, but revenue fell 3.9% in the fiscal year to Sep 2025 vs the year before.
Scotts Miracle-Gro is more profitable than most peers, yet revenue fell 3.9% in the fiscal year to Sep 2025 vs the year before.
Profit is backed by cash. Free cash flow is 180% of reported profit.
Scotts Miracle-Gro's free cash flow is 180% of its reported profit, so its earnings are turning into cash it can reinvest, pay out or use to reduce debt.
More volatile share price. Beta 1.81: tends to move more than the market.
Scotts Miracle-Gro's shares have swung more with the market than most peers' (beta 1.81, above the market's 1.0).
StockQuotient Score
43/ 100▼ 1 since Oct 27 closeOct 5 46 → Nov 4 43 (-3)Fundamentals: Yahoo Finance, not primary filings
Why it changed since the Oct 27, 2026 close: Score 61 → 59
Share price +4.1%-1
Peer companies moved-1
Each step re-scores the company against its peers as they were on Oct 28, 2026; the parts add up to the change. Price effects on EBITDA yield are approximate.
Shareholders' equity is negative, so debt/equity counts as among the highest in its peer group33% base weight · Z-score -4.82Sector median: 0.3578 · MAD: 0.2929
Valuation, growth and profitability scores: higher is better. Risk: 0 is lower, 2 is higher. Risk is a relative proxy, not a bankruptcy probability. Scores depend on available sector peers.
Questions investors ask about Scotts Miracle-Gro
Is Scotts Miracle-Gro getting weaker?
Filing-by-filing changes are tracked only for companies that file with the US SEC. Its overall score is 43/100, down 1 since Oct 28, 2026.
How is Scotts Miracle-Gro valued vs its peers?
Priced about in line with its peers. Valuation scores 59/100 against 1,371 basic materials peers.Free cash flow yield 7.3% vs a peer median of 2.6% (stronger than 75% of peers).Free cash flow yield 7.3% vs peers 2.6% (stronger than 75% of peers).
Is Scotts Miracle-Gro growing?
More slowly than most of its peers. Growth scores 30/100 against 1,371 basic materials peers.Revenue growth -3.9% vs a peer median of 3.4% (weaker than 72% of peers).Revenue growth -3.9% vs peers 3.4% (weaker than 72% of peers).
How profitable is Scotts Miracle-Gro?
More profitable than most of its peers. Profitability scores 83/100 against 1,371 basic materials peers.Return on assets 9.3% vs a peer median of 2.5% (stronger than 87% of peers).Return on assets 9.3% vs peers 2.5% (stronger than 87% of peers).
How risky is Scotts Miracle-Gro?
Higher risk relative to 1,371 basic materials peers, judged on debt, liquidity and share-price swings.Beta 1.81 vs a peer median of 0.69 (weaker than 100% of peers).Beta 1.81 vs peers 0.69 (weaker than 100% of peers). A relative measure, not a bankruptcy probability.
Industry valuation context
Sector: Basic Materials · 121 companies
Valuations in Basic Materials are near the top of their range since 2016.
84% of months since 2016 were valued lower than now.
43% of companies are in the most expensive fifth of their own price-to-sales history.
Over 24 months, company values +23% and earnings +13% (medians): prices and earnings moved broadly together.
Median price-to-sales is −9% vs the whole market, against a usual −27%.
2016Shaded: most expensive fifth of its range2026
Shown for Basic Materials: too few Agricultural Inputs companies have a long enough history of their own.
This is a cyclical group: after a downturn, trailing earnings and sales fall faster than prices, which can make valuations look high near a cycle's low.
Describes valuations since 2016; it does not predict prices. US companies worth $1B+, from SEC filings and month-end prices, as of Aug 2026. Today's companies and industry labels are used throughout. Measured on earnings, EBITDA, sales and free cash flow yields. How this works
Financials
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