The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells organic and natural products in United States, United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates through two segments, North America and International. The company offers infant formula; infant, toddler, and kids' food; plant-based beverages and frozen desserts, such as soy, rice, oat, almond, and coconut; and condiments. It also provides cooking and culinary oils; cereal bars; canned, chilled fresh, aseptic, and instant soups; yogurts, chilis, chocolate, and nut butters; and juices. In addition, the company offers hot-eating desserts, cookies, refrigerated and frozen plant-based meat-alternative products, jams, fruit spreads, jellies, honey, natural sweeteners, and marmalade products, as well as other food products. Further, it provides snack products comprising potato, root vegetable and other exotic vegetable chips, straws, tortilla chips, whole grain chips, pita chips, and puffs; and personal care products that include hand, skin, hair, and oral care products, as well as deodorants, baby food, body washes, sunscreens, and lotions under the Alba Botanica, Avalon Organics, Earth's Best, JASON, Live Clean, and Queen Helene brands name. Additionally, the company offers herbal, green, black, wellness, rooibos, and chai tea under the Celestial Seasonings brand. It sells pantry products under the Spectrum, Spectrum Essentials, MaraNatha, Imagine broths, Hain Pure Foods, Health Valley, and Hollywood brands. It sells its products through specialty and natural food distributors, supermarkets, natural food stores, mass-market and e-commerce retailers, food service channels and clubs, and drug and convenience stores in approximately 80 countries worldwide. The company was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Lake Success, New York.
Hain Celestial Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results
Hain Celestial posted fiscal Q4 net sales of $263 million, down 28% year-over-year, driven mostly by the divested North American snacks business, while organic net sales slipped 2% with North America organic growth of 2%.
For fiscal 2026, net sales fell 13% to $1,353 million and the net loss narrowed to $305 million from $531 million, but the year still absorbed $193 million of goodwill impairment and adjusted EBITDA declined to $89 million from $114 million, with adjusted EPS swinging to a $0.17 loss from a $0.09 gain.
Free cash flow swung to $58 million for the year from a $3 million outflow and net debt fell to $500 million, yet the full $558 million debt load now sits in current liabilities, and management still needs a lender agreement to extend its December debt maturity with net secured leverage at 4.5x.
CEO Alison Lewis framed fiscal 2026 as pivotal, conditioning the pivot to a focused North American company on completing the separately announced International business sale and the debt-maturity extension, with Q4 gross margin up 200 basis points to 22.5% cited as evidence of improving momentum.