Brown-Forman Corporation has grown revenue −2.8% a year over three years and 1.6% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at −0.85%. Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate: −2.8% (Consumer Defensive median +4.8%). Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +1.6%, growth has slowed since the five-year average. Earnings per share, 3-year rate: −0.85%, earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders. Years of annual history on file: 18, FY2009 to FY2026, as filed.

BF-ABrown-Forman Corporation

Consumer Defensive

$26.88+2.6% 1Y

$26.88

$23.0052 weeks$30.33

Is it growing?

Watch

Growth is fading: earnings down −13% year on year and operating margin narrowing (−2.4 points).

2 to watch, 1 neutral

Revenue trend−1% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings. Five-year pace: +2% a year.

Earnings trend−13% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing slower than revenue, so the growth is costing something.

Margin direction−2.4 points operating

Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 25.0% now against 27.3% a year earlier.

All from SEC EDGAR, as of Jul 31, 2026.

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Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Revenue growth, 3 yearsbehind 89% of the market

Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.

Is BF-A growing?

Brown-Forman Corporation has grown revenue −2.8% a year over three years and 1.6% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at −0.85%.

−2.8%

Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Consumer Defensive median +4.8% · shrinking · compounded from trailing twelve-month revenue

Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +1.6%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · −2.8% over three · growth has slowed since the five-year average
Earnings per share, 3-year rate: −0.85%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue −2.8% · earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders
Years of annual history on file: 18
Years of annual history on file · FY2009 to FY2026, as filed