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Financial profile · FY2026

A cash-generative branded drinks business with resilient underlying margins and episodic reported earnings shocks

Across the multi-year record, Diageo combines historically substantial operating margins with recurring free cash generation and relatively modest capital spending. Exceptional impairments and restructuring can, however, materially distort reported earnings.

What is developing

The latest year brought softer sales and sharply lower reported profit, largely reflecting exceptional impairment and restructuring charges, while operating profit before exceptional items improved. This points to a meaningful reported-earnings disruption, not clear evidence that the underlying margin and cash-generating model has changed.

What matters next

Whether operating profit before exceptional items holds up as restructuring charges give way to the planned savings.

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Metric FY2017 FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025 FY2026
1.2B 874m 932m 3.3B 2.7B 2.3B 1.4B 1.1B 2.2B 1.5B
1.2B 874m 932m 3.3B 2.7B 2.3B 1.4B 1.1B 2.2B 1.5B
24m 25m 124m 73m 59.1m 184.1m 437m 355m 447m 261m
2.4B 2.6B 2.6B 2.1B 3.1B 3.8B 3.4B 3.5B 3.7B 3.4B
2.2B 2.2B 2.2B 1.5B 2.4B 2.9B 2.6B 2.7B 2.8B 2.6B
263m 414m 381m 621m 699.4m 832.5m 839m 771m 879m 805m
4.8B 5B 5.5B 5.8B 7.8B 9.6B 9.7B 9.7B 10.7B 10.5B
216m 191m 270m 159m 289.3m 848.7m 288m 404m 467m 1.5B
8.7B 8.7B 9.4B 11.5B 14.7B 17.5B 15.6B 15.1B 17.5B 17.2B
4B 4.1B 4.5B 5B 6.3B 8B 7.9B 8.7B 9.7B 9.2B
4B 4.1B 4.5B 5B 6.3B 8B 7.9B 8.7B 9.7B 9.2B
(2.5B) (2.7B) (3B) (3.3B) (4.3B) (4.9B) (4.3B) (4.5B) (5.1B) (5.3B)
9.8B 9.9B 9.9B 9.4B 11.3B 13B 11.7B 12B 11.8B 10.9B
2.7B 2.7B 2.7B 1.9B 2.5B 3.1B 2.8B 2.9B 2.9B 2.4B
66m 73m 62m 51m 59.1m 62.3m 78m 101m 50m 79m
2.9B 3B 3.2B 3.6B 4.3B 5B 5.4B 5.4B 5.8B 5.3B
654m 1.2B 1.6B 1.9B 1.8B 2.7B 1.4B 1.3B 1.5B 1.7B
2.7B 2.7B 2.7B 1.9B 2.5B 3.1B 2.8B 2.9B 2.9B 2.4B
28.8B 29.7B 31.3B 33.3B 41.1B 49.4B 44.9B 45.5B 49.3B 46.8B
1.4B 1.5B 1.7B 1.3B 2.6B 3.7B 10B 3.1B 3.1B 9.3B
1.7B 1.9B 1.9B 1.8B 2.5B 3.3B 2.6B 2.6B 3B 2.9B
274m 279m 860m 170m 144m 100.2m 295m 500m 22m 26m
2.2B 1.6B 1.1B 1.9B 2.4B 2.1B 1.9B 2.5B 3B 2.5B
1.1B 1.1B 1.4B 1.2B 1.6B 2.2B 1.4B 1.2B 1.6B 2.4B
37.8m 48.9m 71.1m 98m 99.6m 109.6m 92m 84m 82m 67m
6.7B 6.4B 7B 6.5B 9.2B 11.4B 9.6B 9.9B 10.7B 10.7B
6.7B 8.2B 10.7B 15.2B 16.9B 20.2B 19.1B 19.1B 21.4B 19.6B
2.1B 2B 2B 2B 2.5B 3.1B 2.8B 2.9B 2.9B 2.5B
1.7B 1.8B 1.8B 1.7B 2B 2.3B 1.9B 2B 2.1B 2.1B
1.3B 1.5B 1.4B 1.2B 1.7B 1.8B 1.7B 1.5B 1.1B 1.1B
18.5B 19.8B 22.9B 26.5B 32.2B 38.9B 35B 35.4B 38.2B 36B
797m 780m 753m 742m 952.7m 978.7m 898m 887m 887m 887m
10.8B 11B 9.1B 7.5B 10.6B 11.7B 10.7B 13.9B 14.4B 14.6B
1.3B 1.3B 1.4B 1.4B 1.7B 1.8B 1.7B 1.7B 1.7B 1.7B
(2.2B) (2.1B) (2B) (1.9B) (2.4B) (2.5B) (1.8B) (2.3B) (2.2B) (2.2B)
(453m) (1B) (818m) (929m) (2B) (1.4B) (3.4B) (4.2B) (3.6B) (4.1B)
10.3B 9.9B 8.4B 6.8B 8.9B 10.6B 9.9B 10B 11.1B 10.9B
28.8B 29.7B 31.3B 33.3B 41.1B 49.4B 44.9B 45.5B 49.3B 46.8B
2.5B 2.5B 2.4B 2.3B 2.3B 2.3B 2.2B 2.2B 2.2B 2.2B