SJM
StockThe J. M. Smucker Company
One email when a drop — in price or in valuation — is historically rare for SJM. Otherwise we stay quiet.
Bigger than its usual dip. Not yet rare.
The J. M. Smucker Company is 14.9% off its high — deeper than its 4.1% average pullback, but it has been through 159 drawdowns before. Not historically significant yet — we'll say so if that changes.
Valuation is notable too — P/S Severity Score 3.4, below its typical range.
Elevated
Current Drawdown
-14.9%
Days in Drawdown
1308
Avg Max Drawdown
4.1%
Avg Length
63
Drawdown Severity Score™
3.2
SJM - Price & High Water Mark
SJM - Drawdown Timeline
How to read this chart: Negative values indicate drawdowns from all-time highs. Values closer to 0% mean the stock is near its high water mark.
Valuation vs Its Own History
Data as of August 21, 2026 · updated daily
Where today's valuation sits within SJM's own multi-year range, scored with the same Drawdown Severity Score language as price, measured from its typical level rather than its record high — a higher score means it has rarely been cheaper. This is context, not a recommendation.
Price to Sales
The J. M. Smucker Company has been cheaper on this measure only about 24% of the time in 20 years of daily history.
Price to Sales history
EV to EBITDA
The J. M. Smucker Company has been cheaper on this measure only about 92% of the time in 20 years of daily history.
EV to EBITDA history · log scale
The J. M. Smucker Company (SJM) Analysis: Current Drawdown Insights
The J. M. Smucker Company is currently in a drawdown that is unusual by its own historical standards. As of 2026-08-21, the stock is trading at $124.32, which represents a 14.9% decline from its all-time high of $146.11. This drawdown has persisted for 1308 days.
Based on its full tracked price history, The J. M. Smucker Company typically experiences drawdowns averaging 4.1% in depth, with an average duration of 63 days. The J. M. Smucker Company has gone through 159 total drawdown events in its tracked history. The largest drawdown on record for The J. M. Smucker Company was 48.9%, beginning in 1997. The longest drawdown duration on record was 1718 days.
The Drawdown Severity Score™ for The J. M. Smucker Company currently stands at 3.23. This is our proprietary indicator that shows the relative severity of the current drawdown based on the asset's unique historical patterns. A score between 3.0 and 5.0 indicates an elevated drawdown that's larger than this asset's historical averages.
Understanding Drawdowns: A drawdown measures how far a stock has fallen from its peak price. Every stock experiences drawdowns: periods when the price declines from all-time highs before recovering. By analyzing The J. M. Smucker Company's historical drawdown patterns, investors can identify when the stock is experiencing a typical market fluctuation versus an unusual decline that is rare by that stock's own historical standards.
📜 Historical Drawdown Events
Current drawdown shown in blue. Showing the most recent and the deepest of 159 tracked pullbacks (64 listed).
| Start Date | End Date | Duration | Max Depth | Start Price | Lowest Price | Recovery Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-21 | Ongoing | 1308 days | -14.9% | $146.11 | $124.32 | n/a |
| 2022-12-28 | 2023-01-06 | 10 days | -1.1% | $143.68 | $142.16 | $146.11 |
| 2022-12-13 | 2022-12-21 | 9 days | -1.4% | $140.17 | $138.27 | $141.93 |
| 2022-12-08 | 2022-12-12 | 5 days | -0.6% | $139.90 | $139.00 | $140.17 |
| 2022-12-05 | 2022-12-07 | 3 days | -0.6% | $138.80 | $137.99 | $139.90 |
| 2022-12-01 | 2022-12-02 | 2 days | -0.0% | $138.40 | $138.34 | $138.80 |
| 2022-11-29 | 2022-11-30 | 2 days | -0.0% | $136.21 | $136.16 | $138.40 |
| 2022-10-31 | 2022-11-25 | 26 days | -6.2% | $134.53 | $126.24 | $135.93 |
| 2022-08-25 | 2022-10-24 | 61 days | -5.2% | $128.64 | $121.91 | $129.49 |
| 2022-05-13 | 2022-08-24 | 104 days | -15.5% | $128.18 | $108.26 | $128.64 |
| 2022-05-10 | 2022-05-12 | 3 days | -1.7% | $127.56 | $125.35 | $128.18 |
| 2022-01-19 | 2022-05-09 | 110 days | -12.5% | $126.93 | $111.12 | $127.56 |
| 2022-01-10 | 2022-01-14 | 5 days | -1.8% | $125.19 | $122.99 | $126.76 |
| 2021-12-17 | 2022-01-05 | 20 days | -5.1% | $121.31 | $115.18 | $123.14 |
| 2021-06-07 | 2021-12-16 | 193 days | -14.2% | $120.25 | $103.22 | $121.31 |
| 2021-05-11 | 2021-06-03 | 24 days | -3.7% | $118.31 | $113.97 | $118.58 |
| 2021-05-07 | 2021-05-10 | 4 days | -0.6% | $117.39 | $116.70 | $118.31 |
| 2016-08-23 | 2021-05-06 | 1718 days | -36.7% | $117.27 | $74.22 | $117.39 |
| 2016-08-05 | 2016-08-22 | 18 days | -2.6% | $116.67 | $113.60 | $117.27 |
| 2016-07-26 | 2016-08-04 | 10 days | -1.9% | $115.57 | $113.34 | $116.67 |
| 2016-07-11 | 2016-07-25 | 15 days | -1.7% | $115.09 | $113.16 | $115.57 |
| 2016-07-01 | 2016-07-06 | 6 days | -0.5% | $113.84 | $113.27 | $114.32 |
| 2016-06-23 | 2016-06-29 | 7 days | -1.2% | $109.87 | $108.56 | $111.38 |
| 2016-06-17 | 2016-06-21 | 5 days | -0.5% | $108.61 | $108.10 | $109.06 |
| 2016-06-13 | 2016-06-16 | 4 days | -0.5% | $107.74 | $107.20 | $108.61 |
| 2016-04-04 | 2016-06-06 | 64 days | -6.0% | $98.48 | $92.58 | $98.55 |
| 2016-03-31 | 2016-04-01 | 2 days | -0.3% | $96.74 | $96.49 | $98.48 |
| 2016-03-18 | 2016-03-29 | 12 days | -1.7% | $96.54 | $94.90 | $96.59 |
| 2016-02-26 | 2016-03-17 | 20 days | -2.6% | $96.29 | $93.79 | $96.54 |
| 2016-02-04 | 2016-02-25 | 22 days | -3.8% | $95.63 | $92.04 | $96.29 |
| 2016-02-02 | 2016-02-03 | 2 days | -0.6% | $95.46 | $94.87 | $95.63 |
| 2015-12-24 | 2016-01-28 | 36 days | -5.3% | $92.30 | $87.42 | $93.36 |
| 2015-12-17 | 2015-12-23 | 7 days | -2.0% | $91.72 | $89.85 | $92.30 |
| 2015-12-08 | 2015-12-16 | 9 days | -2.8% | $91.42 | $88.83 | $91.72 |
| 2015-11-30 | 2015-12-07 | 8 days | -2.4% | $91.12 | $88.93 | $91.42 |
| 2015-11-24 | 2015-11-25 | 2 days | -0.3% | $90.59 | $90.29 | $90.88 |
| 2015-05-26 | 2015-11-19 | 178 days | -12.3% | $87.93 | $77.12 | $89.65 |
| 2015-05-21 | 2015-05-22 | 2 days | -0.5% | $87.56 | $87.12 | $87.93 |
| 2015-05-05 | 2015-05-14 | 10 days | -2.2% | $85.98 | $84.09 | $86.45 |
| 2015-04-28 | 2015-05-04 | 7 days | -1.9% | $85.86 | $84.20 | $85.98 |
| 2015-04-16 | 2015-04-27 | 12 days | -1.5% | $85.77 | $84.49 | $85.86 |
| 2015-04-07 | 2015-04-14 | 8 days | -1.4% | $85.16 | $83.93 | $85.56 |
| 2015-03-31 | 2015-04-06 | 7 days | -1.4% | $85.08 | $83.88 | $85.16 |
| 2015-03-02 | 2015-03-27 | 25 days | -4.1% | $83.79 | $80.33 | $84.27 |
| 2015-02-19 | 2015-02-26 | 8 days | -1.0% | $83.03 | $82.16 | $83.69 |
| 2015-02-17 | 2015-02-18 | 2 days | -0.6% | $82.73 | $82.23 | $83.03 |
| 2015-02-06 | 2015-02-13 | 8 days | -1.3% | $81.86 | $80.82 | $82.73 |
| 2013-08-06 | 2015-02-04 | 548 days | -18.4% | $79.77 | $65.12 | $80.97 |
| 2013-07-24 | 2013-07-25 | 2 days | -0.2% | $76.50 | $76.39 | $77.23 |
| 2013-07-17 | 2013-07-18 | 2 days | -0.5% | $74.75 | $74.34 | $74.91 |
| 2013-07-10 | 2013-07-11 | 2 days | -0.1% | $72.97 | $72.91 | $73.89 |
| 2012-04-03 | 2012-08-17 | 137 days | -9.0% | $55.14 | $50.18 | $56.91 |
| 2012-01-26 | 2012-03-28 | 62 days | -11.3% | $54.63 | $48.47 | $54.85 |
| 2011-07-25 | 2012-01-12 | 172 days | -14.8% | $53.15 | $45.27 | $53.21 |
| 2010-04-21 | 2010-07-26 | 97 days | -12.9% | $40.67 | $35.44 | $40.92 |
| 2007-07-02 | 2009-10-19 | 841 days | -38.2% | $34.63 | $21.40 | $34.73 |
| 2004-04-02 | 2007-02-20 | 1055 days | -26.0% | $26.95 | $19.94 | $27.79 |
| 2003-06-18 | 2003-09-16 | 91 days | -9.5% | $20.77 | $18.80 | $20.81 |
| 2003-01-17 | 2003-06-17 | 151 days | -18.6% | $20.51 | $16.69 | $20.77 |
| 2002-09-19 | 2002-11-15 | 58 days | -15.9% | $18.73 | $15.76 | $19.24 |
| 2001-12-07 | 2002-08-29 | 265 days | -20.9% | $18.14 | $14.35 | $18.32 |
| 2001-10-12 | 2001-12-04 | 54 days | -10.7% | $16.98 | $15.17 | $17.26 |
| 2001-09-07 | 2001-10-10 | 34 days | -14.9% | $13.74 | $11.69 | $14.90 |
| 1997-10-06 | 2001-09-06 | 1432 days | -48.9% | $13.72 | $7.01 | $13.74 |
| 1994-12-27 | 1997-08-27 | 974 days | -35.0% | $11.68 | $7.59 | $11.97 |
How to read: Each row shows a complete drawdown from peak to recovery. Red rows = most severe drawdowns (worst 20% or 5x+ average), yellow rows = moderate (2x-5x worse than average).
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The J. M. Smucker Company (SJM) is trading at $124.32 as of Aug 21, 2026. It is 14.9% below its high of $146.11. The drawdown has lasted 1,308 days. Severity score: 3.2 (Elevated).
SJM Price History and Drawdown Data
Latest price
$124.32
High-water mark
$146.11
Current drawdown
-14.9%
Days in drawdown
1,308
This SJM page is built around daily price history, the latest high-water mark, current drawdown depth, drawdown duration, and comparable historical drawdown events. The chart above provides the price-history context, while the sections below explain how the current move compares with prior The J. M. Smucker Company drawdowns.
What History Says About SJM
The J. M. Smucker Company has dropped 15%+ from its high 10 times in its tracked history. These events lasted an average of 715 days with an average max drop of -27.4%.
The current drawdown of -14.9% has lasted 1,308 days, which is 1.8x the average duration of comparable events.
| Period | Max Drop | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 1997 to Sep 2001 | -48.9% | 1432 days |
| Jul 2007 to Oct 2009 | -38.2% | 841 days |
| Aug 2016 to May 2021 | -36.7% | 1718 days |
| Dec 1994 to Aug 1997 | -35.0% | 974 days |
| Apr 2004 to Feb 2007 | -26.0% | 1055 days |
| Dec 2001 to Aug 2002 | -20.9% | 265 days |
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