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Food & Beverage · US · Brown-Forman Corporation

4 of 6 ratios computed · receipts verified server-side

Idiot Index
86
out of 100 · 3/6 ratios · FY 2024

The full receipt

Latest published value for each ratio, with the sector median for context and year-over-year change where the prior year is available.

  • Markup

    How much revenue per dollar of cost.

    2.5506× revenue / costverified
    $1 of cost becomes $2.55 of revenue
    Sector median: 2.1444Top 17% for extraction in sector
    FY 2024v1.0.0
  • Operational Markup

    Revenue per dollar of cost + operating expenses. The multiplier after legitimate operations.

    1.8099× revenue / (cost + opex)verified
    $1 of cost+opex becomes $1.81 of revenue
    FY 2024v1.0.0
  • Labor Share

    How much of every revenue dollar reaches workers.

    Not computed: missing input.
    Needed but not in this company's XBRL filings: Total Employee Compensation.
    What this company did disclose: Stock Buybacks, Cost of Goods Sold, Dividends Paid, Net Income, Operating Expenses, Revenue
  • Executive Extraction

    How many times a CEO out-earns the median employee.

    219.2× CEO / median workerverified
    CEO earns 219× the median worker
    Sector median: 178.6Median range for extraction in sector
    FY 2024v1.0.0
  • Shareholder Extraction

    Dollars sent to shareholders for every dollar invested in R&D.

    Not applicable to this sector.
    Companies in Food Beverage typically don't report R&D — their growth investment goes to capex, not research expense.
    See Capital Extraction on this page — it's the universal version designed for sectors where Shareholder Extraction doesn't apply.
  • Capital Extraction

    How much of net profit goes to shareholders rather than back into the business.

    0.9916× buybacks+dividends / net incomeverified
    99% of net profit returned to shareholders, 1% reinvested
    Sector median: 0.9916Median range for extraction in sector
    FY 2024v1.0.0

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Source data

Every raw line item this company disclosed in its XBRL filings. Click any filing to view the original on SEC.gov.

FY 2025· 2 facts
ConceptValueUnitPeriodFilingReceipt
CEO Total Compensation
CEOTotalCompensation
13,449,544USDFY0001193125-25-143663verified
Median Employee Compensation
MedianEmployeeCompensation
61,347USDFY0001193125-25-143663verified
FY 2024· 6 facts
ConceptValueUnitPeriodFilingReceipt
Cost of Goods Sold
CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold
1,542,000,000USDFY0000014693-24-000086verified
Dividends Paid
PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock
831,000,000USDFY0000014693-24-000086verified
Net Income
NetIncomeLoss
838,000,000USDFY0000014693-24-000086verified
Operating Expenses
OperatingExpensesDerived(sum:SellingGeneralAndAdministrativeExpense+OtherOperatingIncomeExpenseNet)
631,000,000USDFY0000014693-24-000086verified
Revenue
RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax
3,933,000,000USDFY0000014693-24-000086verified
Stock Buybacks
PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock
0USDFY0000014693-24-000086verified