Sharemaestro company-news research for Diageo plc (DGED), showing current tone, evidence confidence, direct company coverage, sector and industry context, completed price response and the source headlines used on the page. Scores describe published news evidence. Confidence describes the amount, freshness, source breadth and direct company relevance of that evidence. Price context is shown separately.

LSE United Kingdom Insufficient evidence

Company news sentiment

DGED news sentiment

Diageo plc

Company headlines compared by relevance, subject, source independence, tone and the market's completed price response.

Weighted tone50Neutral is 50
No current sentiment signal 0/100 evidence confidence 0% direct company focus 0 current stories across 0 publishers
Latest weekly closeUSD 96.62week of 7 Aug 2026
Dominant catalystMarket update0/100 classification confidence
News data statusUnavailable0 duplicate stories removed

Current company news

The current company-level signal is not yet measurable

Available headlines do not meet the required combination of freshness, direct relevance and independent source depth. The neutral score is a withheld classification, not a neutral forecast.

Available context

Market context

+9.2% over one week, +17.8% over four weeks, trend inactive, and near fair-value range.

Why classification is withheld

Company coverage

No current company-specific story carries enough weight to establish a direct signal.

Confidence

Evidence confidence is 0/100, below the threshold for a firm classification.

50/100
Weighted toneNo current sentiment signal
0/100
Evidence confidencethin evidence
0%/100
Company focus0 direct stories
N/A/100
Evidence agreementrequires at least 2 stories

News history

Tone and story flow over 21 days

Daily weighted evidence
No measurable trajectory yet

The chart will begin when a dated headline passes the relevance and freshness controls.

Evidence confidence

What supports the score

Measured separately from tone

Confidence rises through sample depth, independent publishers, direct company relevance, freshness and agreement. A high or low tone score is not itself evidence of reliability.

Sample depth0
0 effective stories
Source breadth0
0 independent publishers
Direct relevance0
company-specific evidence share
Freshness0
recency-weighted evidence
Agreement0
requires at least 2 stories
Source independence0
lower publisher concentration

Price context

Sentiment against the 26-week price path

No current news signal

No sufficiently fresh, directly relevant company news is available for a price comparison.

06 Feb 2026: close 95.29, indexed 100.013 Feb 2026: close 98.72, indexed 103.620 Feb 2026: close 99.11, indexed 104.027 Feb 2026: close 88.26, indexed 92.613 Mar 2026: close 76.7, indexed 80.520 Mar 2026: close 73.35, indexed 77.027 Mar 2026: close 73.76, indexed 77.403 Apr 2026: close 72.83, indexed 76.410 Apr 2026: close 76.65, indexed 80.417 Apr 2026: close 82.03, indexed 86.124 Apr 2026: close 79.16, indexed 83.101 May 2026: close 80.79, indexed 84.808 May 2026: close 84.48, indexed 88.715 May 2026: close 81.84, indexed 85.922 May 2026: close 86.15, indexed 90.429 May 2026: close 83.64, indexed 87.805 Jun 2026: close 80.18, indexed 84.112 Jun 2026: close 81.36, indexed 85.419 Jun 2026: close 80.72, indexed 84.726 Jun 2026: close 83.25, indexed 87.403 Jul 2026: close 81.96, indexed 86.010 Jul 2026: close 82.05, indexed 86.117 Jul 2026: close 83.48, indexed 87.624 Jul 2026: close 83.32, indexed 87.431 Jul 2026: close 88.45, indexed 92.807 Aug 2026: close 96.62, indexed 101.4 20 Jun 2026: sentiment 4421 Jun 2026: sentiment 4322 Jun 2026: sentiment 4222 Jun 2026: sentiment 4222 Jun 2026: sentiment 4223 Jun 2026: sentiment 5024 Jun 2026: sentiment 4224 Jun 2026: sentiment 3926 Jun 2026: sentiment 3828 Jun 2026: sentiment 3930 Jun 2026: sentiment 4001 Jul 2026: sentiment 4002 Jul 2026: sentiment 4003 Jul 2026: sentiment 4104 Jul 2026: sentiment 4008 Jul 2026: sentiment 3809 Jul 2026: sentiment 3915 Jul 2026: sentiment 4018 Jul 2026: sentiment 3919 Jul 2026: sentiment 3920 Jul 2026: sentiment 3922 Jul 2026: sentiment 4022 Jul 2026: sentiment 4023 Jul 2026: sentiment 4023 Jul 2026: sentiment 4024 Jul 2026: sentiment 4024 Jul 2026: sentiment 3925 Jul 2026: sentiment 4228 Jul 2026: sentiment 4131 Jul 2026: sentiment 4102 Aug 2026: sentiment 4304 Aug 2026: sentiment 43
06 Feb15 May07 Aug
Weekly close, indexedSentiment score
26-week price+1.4%latest close 96.62
Sentiment change-1available snapshot window
One-week response+9.2%Price confirming higher
Fair-value position-13.5%Near fair-value range
Insufficient evidence

News subjects

What is shaping the score

Market update

Catalyst structure will appear as classified company evidence builds.

Source mix

Where the evidence comes from

0/100 independence

No current publisher evidence is available.

Recurring subjects

Subjects appearing most often

Current evidence

Topic structure will appear when classified tags are present in the current feed.

Earlier readings

How the score has changed

50 is the neutral baseline
ConstructiveBalanced or withheldCautious

Source headlines

The news behind the score

No matched evidence

Every row shows the public evidence used to understand the read. Direct company stories carry more weight than industry or sector context; duplicate coverage is consolidated before scoring.

No qualifying company evidence

The system found no fresh, sufficiently relevant headline to place in the evidence ledger. It does not infer a neutral outlook from missing coverage.

How the page works

How to read the score

Tone is directional

It describes the weighted balance of qualifying headlines. A score of 50 can mean a balanced tape or that direction has been withheld for insufficient evidence; the status label distinguishes them.

Confidence is separate

Confidence measures depth, source breadth, direct relevance, freshness and agreement. It does not rise merely because the tone is extreme.

Price is confirmation

Weekly price response, trend and fair-value position test whether the market is accepting or rejecting the news. They never rewrite the news score.

Classification, not prediction

The page describes completed evidence available at the stated time. It is research context, not a forecast, recommendation, target or execution instruction.

Evidence context