The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG)

Lawn and garden products maker, 5,200 year-end. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 25, 2025. Ranked 4 of the 62 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 5,200 associates at year-end against a seasonal peak of 6,900 and counts 2,100 in-store merchandising associates during the year, so the merchandising share is counted and the plants are by description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 21% now, 36% at the end of 2027, 42% at the end of 2028, 44% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 44% desk work, 15% people work and 41% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 56% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 36% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

5,200 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; the United States is 92% of revenue, and the 2,100 in-store associates are in the United States.

The filing: “As of September 30, 2025, we employed approximately 5,200 associates.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Year-end 5,200; at the peak of fiscal 2025 about 6,900, with 5,900 associates including seasonal associates and about 1,000 in temporary labor; about 2,100 full-time and seasonal in-store associates in the United States during the year; frontline hourly associates share in profit-sharing.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Linde plc (LIN, 65,177 employees)20% now, 39% by 2028
• Ecolab Inc. (ECL, 48,000 employees)19% now, 34% by 2028
• Dow Inc. (DOW, 34,600 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
• Corteva, Inc. (CTVA, 21,500 employees)15% now, 25% by 2028
• Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APD, 21,300 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
• LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (LYB, 18,970 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
• DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (DD, 15,000 employees)19% now, 35% by 2028
• Eastman Chemical Company (EMN, 13,000 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

6 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI among cyber risks and generative AI search platforms among the technology trends its marketing must keep up with, in its risk factors.

• “Further, the development of artificial intelligence is creating more sophisticated avenues to disrupt operational systems.”
• “In addition, our efforts to remain competitive with technology trends, including the use of new or improved technology such as generative artificial intelligence powered search platforms, creative user interfaces and other e-commerce marketing tools such as paid search and mobile applications may increase our costs but may not increase sales or attract consumers.”
• “The rapid evolution and growing adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies present emerging risks to the security of our information, as well as the information of our customers and business partners.”
• “Furthermore, the increasing use of artificial intelligence by threat actors is enhancing the sophistication, speed and effectiveness of cyber attacks and amplifying existing security challenges.”
• “Additionally, the use of artificial intelligence by our employees, or by our customers and business partners, could increase our exposure to cyber threats.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20240median 4
• Fiscal 20256median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The collector took the peak workforce of 6,900, which includes seasonal associates and 1,000 in temporary labor; rule 2 takes the year-end 5,200 with the seasonal count in the notes.
• The data service's segment table (Other Segments 60%, Hawthorne 40%) does not carry the filing's segment names and is not usable.
• The in-store merchandising share is read from a count that spans the season, so it is loose.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000825542-25-000022, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.