Scotts Miracle-Gro: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE: SMG) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Marysville, Ohio, United States that owns 4 consumer brands across 2 categories and makes and sells 1 consumer brand under licence without owning the name.[1][2]
Scotts Miracle-Gro traces to an Ohio seed business founded in 1868 and is the largest lawn and garden company in North America. It merged with Miracle-Gro in 1995 and later built a substantial business supplying equipment and nutrients to hydroponic and cannabis growers.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 Marysville, Ohio, United States
- Founded
- 1868
- Tickers
- NYSE: SMG
- Revenue
- $3.41 billion (2025)[2]
- SEC CIK
- 0000825542
- Wikidata
- Q7437725
- Website
- scottsmiraclegro.com
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
What Scotts Miracle-Gro's annual report says about its business
Read from Scotts Miracle-Gro's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
Acquisitions and disposals named in the filing
- Acquired: Stern's Miracle-Gro Products, Inc. (fiscal 1995).
In fiscal 1995, through a merger with Stern's Miracle-Gro Products, Inc., which was founded by Horace Hagedorn and Otto Stern in Long Island, New York in 1951, we acquired the Miracle-Gro brand, the industry leader in water-soluble garden plant foods.
- Acquired: Ortho brand (fiscal 1999).
In fiscal 1999, we acquired the Ortho brand in the U.S. and obtained exclusive rights to market Monsanto's consumer Roundup brand within the U.S. and other contractually specified countries, thereby adding industry-leading weed, pest and disease control products to our portfolio.
Scotts Miracle-Gro in numbers
- Scotts Miracle-Gro owns 4 consumer brands tracked here across 2 top-level categories; the largest is home, garden & diy with 2 brands.[1]
Scotts Miracle-Gro financial history
Headline figures from Scotts Miracle-Gro's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2020–2025. Revenue moved from $4.13bn to $3.41bn, an average of -3.7% a year (calculated).
| Fiscal year ended | Revenue | Operating income | Operating margin | Net income | Total assets | Long-term debt | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3.41bn | $358.6m | 10.5% | $145.2m | $2.74bn | $2.05bn | 10-K | |
| $3.55bn | $208.8m | 5.9% | $-34,900,000 | $2.87bn | $2.17bn | 10-K | |
| $3.55bn | $-174,400,000 | -4.9% | $-380,100,000 | $3.41bn | $2.56bn | 10-K | |
| $3.92bn | $-434,000,000 | -11.1% | $-437,500,000 | $4.3bn | $2.83bn | 10-K | |
| $4.92bn | $723m | 14.7% | $512.5m | $4.8bn | $2.24bn | 10-K | |
| $4.13bn | $585.2m | 14.2% | $387.4m | $3.38bn | $1.46bn | 10-K |
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Everything Scotts Miracle-Gro owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
Minority stakes, joint ventures and licences
- Roundup (consumer) — licensee 100%[1]Made and sold under licence; the Roundup name is owned by Bayer.
Scotts Miracle-Gro in the global legal-entity registry
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
- Legal entity identifier (LEI)
- 2TH9E0JTOUXOEGI2R879
- Registered name
- THE SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO COMPANY (US)
- Registration status
- Issued · record updated 8 June 2026
- Parent
- None named: it reports that no person or entity controls it.
- Retrieved
- · GLEIF record (JSON)
Scotts Miracle-Gro SEC filings
The documents behind the figures on this page, as listed in the SEC's EDGAR index. Each links to the filing itself.
Annual reports
- Annual report, filed (10-K)
- Annual report, filed (10-K)
- Annual report, filed (10-K)
- Annual report, filed (10-K)
Proxy statements
- Proxy statement, filed (DEF 14A)
- Proxy statement, filed (DEF 14A)
- Proxy statement, filed (DEF 14A)
Recent current and quarterly reports
| Filed | Form | What it declares |
|---|---|---|
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers | |
| 8-K | Termination of a material agreement; Other events | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers | |
| 8-K | Entry into a material agreement | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition; Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Other events | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers; Results of a shareholder vote |
Frequently asked questions
What brands does Scotts Miracle-Gro own?
Scotts Miracle-Gro owns 4 consumer brands tracked here, including Scotts, Ortho, Tomcat and Miracle-Gro.
Is Scotts Miracle-Gro an American company?
Yes. Scotts Miracle-Gro is headquartered in Marysville, Ohio, United States and was founded in 1868.
Who owns Scotts Miracle-Gro?
Scotts Miracle-Gro is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as SMG on the NYSE.
Sources (2) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-25 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 25 November 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company: Form 10-K for the year ended 2025-09-30 (revenue) — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 25 November 2025; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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