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Company snapshot — Kerry Group

KYGA.L in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Kerry Group makes taste and nutrition ingredients that other companies put into their own food, drink, supplement and pharmaceutical products, rather than selling packaged goods under its own name. Its taste range covers flavours, extracts and modulation, and its nutrition range covers proteins, fibre, enzymes and dairy ingredients, plus foodservice brands sold direct to retail and catering customers. It also supplies excipients and other inputs to pharmaceutical and life-science makers. It is headquartered in Tralee, Ireland, and sells across Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa.
Where it sits in the stack
Kerry Group carries no seat in Closelook's AI build-out index; it sits in the Consumer Defensive sector of our wider universe, supplying ingredients rather than compute or hardware.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with other Consumer Defensive names it is scored against, including Coca-Cola Consolidated, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Costco and Sprouts Farmers Market; the market also compares it with the flavour-and-fragrance maker Givaudan.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score with no index seat: momentum is the strongest module and quality the weakest, and the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.
What the diary watches
Whether the nutrition and pharma ingredient lines keep gaining share of sales against the older taste and flavour business, since that mix shapes how the score's weaker quality module reads over time.

Kerry Group (KYGA.L) trades on the LSE exchange in UK, classified under Consumer Defensive.

The Closelook company score reads 53/100 composite (momentum 75, quality 56, valuation 69) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for KYGA.L, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Packaged Foods · UK · 3 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Packaged Foods · UK

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against KYGA.L on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.69%, semi-annual · buybacks 500 m EUR in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What KYGA.L pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.40 GBP per share · a 1.69% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +57.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.89 GBP per share
  • Last distribution 0.98 GBP per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-04-09
  • By calendar year 2025: 1.31 GBP (partial) · 2026: 0.98 GBP to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-04-10
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 215 m EUR 36% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 500 m EUR
  • Share count −4.8% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 716 m EUR · 145% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Consumer staples in Europe: +0.4% week · +0.7% month · +1.8% quarter · +11.8% year (approximated)The Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from EXH5.XETRA+EXV9.XETRA; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Kerry Group (KYGA.L)?

Kerry Group trades as KYGA.L on the LSE exchange (UK) and is classified under Consumer Defensive in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is KYGA.L in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Kerry Group is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is Kerry Group's Closelook composite score?

53 out of 100, with momentum 75, quality 56 and valuation 69 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does KYGA.L trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -1% vs the 50-day and +9.5% vs the 200-day average, 7.3% below the 52-week high and +30.5% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 57 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Kerry Group do?

Kerry Group makes taste and nutrition ingredients that other companies put into their own food, drink, supplement and pharmaceutical products, rather than selling packaged goods under its own name. Its taste range covers flavours, extracts and modulation, and its nutrition range covers proteins, fibre, enzymes and dairy ingredients, plus foodservice brands sold direct to retail and catering customers. It also supplies excipients and other inputs to pharmaceutical and life-science makers. Closelook's peer group places it with other Consumer Defensive names it is scored against, including Coca-Cola Consolidated, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Costco and Sprouts Farmers Market; the market also compares it with the flavour-and-fragrance maker Givaudan.

Where does Kerry Group sit in the AI build-out?

Kerry Group carries no seat in Closelook's AI build-out index; it sits in the Consumer Defensive sector of our wider universe, supplying ingredients rather than compute or hardware. It carries a Closelook score with no index seat: momentum is the strongest module and quality the weakest, and the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.

Does Kerry Group pay a dividend?

Kerry Group has paid 1.40 GBP per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 1.69% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.98 GBP on 2026-04-09. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 215 m EUR in dividends and bought back 500 m EUR of its own shares, 145% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 4.8% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for KYGA.L, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Packaged Foods. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.