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The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V.

MICC
41
Packaged Foods · Consumer Defensive
Price
$18.70
-0.12 (-0.64%)
Market Cap
$11.45B
Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Winston Score
41
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Magnum is a global ice cream brand that sells premium chocolate-covered ice cream bars, tubs, and novelties to everyday consumers around the world. The brand is best known for its thick Belgian chocolate coating and positions itself in the premium segment of the frozen dessert market. Magnum operates as a standalone public company after being spun off from Unilever, which previously owned the brand for decades.

The company earns revenue by selling packaged ice cream products through grocery stores, convenience stores, and other retail channels across Europe, North America, Asia, and beyond. Its main competitive advantage is strong brand recognition in the premium ice cream category, built over many years of marketing and distribution. The key growth opportunity is expanding into faster-growing markets in Asia and the Americas, while the main risk is rising input costs for dairy, cocoa, and packaging, which can squeeze profit margins if the company cannot pass those costs on to consumers.

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Share count broadly stable

+0.6% over 3y

The share count has stayed roughly flat over this period — little dilution or buyback activity.

Diluted shares outstanding: 612.3M (2022) → 616.0M (2025)

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Quality

Gross Margin
100.0%
Premium pricing power — 100.0% gross margin
Operating Margin
-16.0%
Losing money on operations — -16.0%
ROCE
-7.2%
Weak — -7.2% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-0.9%
Shrinking sales (-0.9% YoY)
EPS YoY
-31.4%
Earnings shrinking (-31.4% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

EPS Consistency
2/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
138%
Turns 138% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
0.9%
Thin free cash flow (0.9%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
5.09
Heavy debt load (5.09)
Interest Cover
4.31x
Adequate interest coverage (4.3x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
26.0x
Growth-priced — P/E 26.0

P/E above the market average. People are paying up for expected growth.

P/E vs Forward
+11.4
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (26.0 → 14.6)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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