SMGScotts Miracle-Gro Co The
Smart Score
How it is scored →The Smart Score (1–10) describes how this instrument compares with its peers on published, rules-based measures of value, quality, trend, stability and dividend safety. It is not a forecast and not personal advice.
Compared with: Materials companies in USA (n = 71)
Current rating first published: · last recomputed · rating log
Factor scores
Percentiles within the peer group (100 = the best of its peers); dividend safety in points.
Main drivers
- Gross profit growth / assets (5 y)weighs on the score · percentile 1
- Gross profit / assetssupports the score · percentile 95
- Share issuance (1 y)weighs on the score · percentile 17
Red flags and notes
- Serious warning:Yield trap Yield at least twice the peer median while the payout is not covered or debt is high.
- Caution:Dividend cut risk Dividend Safety below 40 points.
- Caution:Dividend outgrows earnings Dividends grew 5+ points a year faster than earnings over five years and the payout is above 75 %.
- Caution:High leverage Net debt above 4× EBITDA or interest cover below 2×.
- Caution:Negative equity Book equity is below zero.
- Sources disagree Dividend or fundamental sources disagree beyond tolerance.
- Unverified dividend A high yield reported by a single source only, not yet cross-checked.
A high yield is not a high return: payouts can come from your own capital and can be cut.
Our rules see a meaningful risk that this dividend is cut.
Our sources disagree or are incomplete for this instrument.
Price chart
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Key metrics
Valuation
- P/E
- 39,2
- P/S
- 0,8
- EV/EBIT
- 13,1
- Free-cash-flow yield
- 9,1%
- Market cap (EUR)
- € 2,6 bi
Profitability and debt
- Return on invested capital
- 12,8%
- Gross margin
- 31,8%
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4,71
Dividends
- Dividend yield
- 5,31%
- Payout ratio
- 224%
- 5-year dividend growth (per year)
- 0,9%
- Years of dividend growth
- 6
Returns and risk
- 1 day
- −0,8%
- 1 month
- −11,1%
- 1 year
- −7,6%
- Volatility, 1 yr
- 36,9%
- Max drawdown, 1 yr
- −33,3%
- Beta
- 0,73
Ratios from SEC filings and end-of-day prices; returns are price changes without dividends.
News and filings
- SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO: 8-K/A (amendment) — Director or officer change
FactSEC EDGAR · Filing · 26 set. 2026
- SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO: 8-K — Agreement terminated; other events
FactSEC EDGAR · Filing · 15 set. 2026
- SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO: 8-K — Director or officer change
FactSEC EDGAR · Filing · 12 set. 2026
- SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO: 8-K — Director or officer change
FactSEC EDGAR · Filing · 4 set. 2026
- SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO: 8-K — Material agreement
FactSEC EDGAR · Filing · 27 ago. 2026
- SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO: 10-Q — Quarterly report for the period ending 2026-06-27
FactSEC EDGAR · Filing · 6 ago. 2026
- SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO: 8-K — Results of operations
FactSEC EDGAR · Filing · 29 jul. 2026
- FactA filing (SEC EDGAR) or an exchange notice (Moscow Exchange): the issuer's or the exchange's own statement.
- Media reportA headline from a named media outlet. We link to it and do not check it.
- RumourUnconfirmed: the headline itself hedges (“reportedly”, “sources say”, “in talks”), names no publisher, or comes from a news aggregator or an automated republisher.
Source: Filings: U.S. SEC EDGAR. The tone is scored automatically from the headline and can be wrong.
Score changes in the last 12 months
Every published rating and change, logged when it was published (EU Market Abuse Regulation).
| Date | Event | Balanced | Growth · Income | Warnings | Price at publication |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rating change | 1/10 | 1 · 1 | removed: Payout above earnings | Available with Invest Pro | |
| First rating | 1/10 | 1 · 1 | Serious warning:Yield trapCaution:Dividend cut riskCaution:Dividend outgrows earningsCaution:Payout above earningsCaution:High leverageCaution:Negative equity | Available with Invest Pro |
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