Forensic Analysis · Consumer Staples / Food & Beverage · as of Aug 11, 2026

Constellation Brands, Inc. (STZ)

A forensic read on Constellation Brands, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

C · Mixed — selective

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

4.7

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

12.5

P / E (ttm)

20.9%

ROE

$22.7B

Market cap

3.11%

Dividend yield

-10.5%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Constellation Brands, Inc. earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 4.7, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

10.2%

FY2026

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 10.2% in the latest fiscal year and rising from 9% — a modest positive spread over its ~8% cost of capital — growth adds value, though not dramatically.

91% of FCF

FY2026

Shareholder returns. Returned $1.6B to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2026 — 91% of free cash flow. Right at the limit of what free cash flow covers — little room before it's funded by debt or the balance sheet. That ratio has actually been EASING, not tightening further — down from ~133% of free cash flow a few years back. Counting the $68M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 95%.

$2.7B

FY2025–FY2025

Goodwill impairments. Took $2.7B of goodwill writedowns across 1 year (FY2025 ($2.7B)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$9.14B

Revenue Growth YoY-10.5%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-1.1%

Net Margin18.5%

Free Cash Flow$1.79B

Return on Equity20.9%

Debt / Equity1.27x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.