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Scotts Miracle-Gro Q4 2025 earnings summary

Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.
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Q4 2025 earnings summary5 Nov, 2025

Executive summary

  • Met or exceeded all fiscal 2025 guidance, with robust U.S. Consumer sales growth, improved gross margin, and substantial free cash flow, driven by branded products, e-commerce, and innovation.

  • Achieved significant supply chain optimization and cost savings, reinvesting in brands and innovation.

  • Continued debt reduction, lowering leverage ratio to 4.1x and reducing interest expense.

  • Initiated a multiyear share buyback proposal and continued divestiture of non-core Hawthorne segment.

Financial highlights

  • Total company sales reached $3.41B for the year; U.S. Consumer net sales were $2.99B, with adjusted EBITDA at $581M, up 14% year-over-year.

  • Non-GAAP adjusted gross margin improved 490 bps to 31.2%, exceeding the 30% target.

  • Free cash flow was $274M, surpassing expectations, and net leverage improved to 4.1x from 4.86x.

  • GAAP net income was $145.2M ($2.47/share); non-GAAP adjusted EPS was $3.74, up from $2.29.

Outlook and guidance

  • Fiscal 2026 guidance: low single-digit U.S. Consumer net sales growth, non-GAAP gross margin of at least 32%, adjusted EPS of $4.15–$4.35, and leverage ratio in the high 3x range.

  • Free cash flow expected at $275M; continued focus on innovation, e-commerce, and supply chain savings.

  • Multiyear share buyback program of $500M–$1B proposed, contingent on leverage targets.

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The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company manufactures, markets, and sells products for lawn, garden care, and indoor and hydroponic gardening in the United States and internationally. It offers lawn fertilizers, grass seed products, spreaders, other durable products, weed control products, outsourced manufactured soilless growing media and plastic plant containers, landscape fabrics, weed barriers/landscape fabrics, lawn/garden decorative products consisting of outdoor décor, holiday décor items during appropriate seasons, deck and patio décor items comprising outdoor pottery sets, pots and planters for patio decks and gardens; bird feeders; window boxes; trellises; obelisks; and whitewash cedar boards used in construction of window boxes. The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in Marysville, Ohio.

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