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Market cap

387.8M

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E22.9

P25 11.3P50 15.2P75 20.1

Trailing P/E28.8

P25 12.9P50 17.8P75 28.8

ROE17.6

P25 -17.2P50 6.8P75 17.2

ROIC16.2

P25 -6.6P50 6.3P75 13.6

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Indicator catalog

All LWAY market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

250

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Currency

USD

Showing 250 of 250 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000814586
Company name	Lifeway Foods, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	531914109
Employees	295
Employees Change	3%
Employees Change Percent	1.03
Enterprise value	$382.7M
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Packaged Foods
IPO Date	1987-09-29
Isin	US5319141090
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$387.8M
Market cap category	Small-Cap
Price	$25.6
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	720,325.42x
Sector	Consumer Staples
Sic	2020
Symbol	LWAY
Website	https://lifewaykefir.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	3.57%
EV Earnings	27.62x
EV Sales Forward	1.49x
EV/EBIT	23.67x
EV/EBITDA	18.99x
EV/Sales	1.8x
FCF yield	-4.23%
Forward P/E	22.86x
P/B ratio	4.54x
P/E ratio	28.76x
P/S ratio	1.83x
PE Ratio10 Y	65.12x
PE Ratio3 Y	27.17x
PE Ratio5 Y	72.13x
PS Forward	1.51x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	7.61%
EBITDA Margin	9.48%
Gross margin	29.01%
Gross Profit	$61.6M
Gross Profit Growth	19.89%
Gross Profit Growth Q	28.39%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	28.26%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	15.48%
Net Income	$13.9M
Net Income Growth	53.56%
Net Income Growth Quarters	4%
Net Income Growth Years	1%
Net Income Growth3 Y	146.62%
Net Income Growth5 Y	33.8%
Pretax Margin	9.26%
Profit Margin	6.52%
Profit Per Employee	$46,980
Profitable Years	7
ROA	10.31
Roa5y	8.42
ROCE	18.18
ROE	17.57
Roe5y	12.21
ROIC	16.17
Roic5y	13.42

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	10.31%
Cagr15y	7.19%
Cagr1y	5.96%
Cagr20y	7.61%
Cagr3y	62.13%
Cagr5y	39.4%
EPS Growth	48.33
EPS Growth Years	1
EPS Growth3 Y	145.7
EPS Growth5 Y	33.84
OCF Growth	-15.54%
OCF Growth10 Y	4.96%
OCF Growth3 Y	40.03%
OCF Growth5 Y	11.39%
Revenue Growth	13.74x
Revenue Growth Q	17.96x
Revenue Growth Quarters	25x
Revenue Growth Years	6x
Revenue Growth3 Y	14.5x
Revenue Growth5 Y	15.81x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$2.17
Assets	$105.6M
Cash	$5.6M
Current Assets	$37.1M
Current Liabilities	$16.6M
Debt	$466,000
Debt EBITDA	$0.02
Debt Equity	$0.01
Equity	$85.8M
Interest Coverage	210
Liabilities	$19.8M
Long Term Assets	$68.6M
Long Term Liabilities	$3.2M
Net Cash	$5.1M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$1.32
Net Cash Growth	-69.27%
Net Debt EBITDA	$-0.25
Net Debt Equity	$-0.06
Tangible Book Value	$68.3M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$4.48
WACC	7.15

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	2.23
Inventory Turnover	14.67
Net Working Capital	$15M
Quick ratio	1.35
Working Capital	$20.4M
Working Capital Turnover	$8.76

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-2.7%
Dividend per share	$0
Dividend Yield	0%
Last Dividend	$0.08

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	166.67%
1Y total return	5.96%
200-day SMA	24.77
3Y total return	326.31%
50-day SMA	22.93
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	426.21%
All Time High	34.2
All Time High Change	-25.15%
All Time High Date	2025-09-17
All Time Low	0.23
All Time Low Change	10,821.5%
All Time Low Date	1994-12-21
ATR	0.89
Beta	0.53
Beta1y	1.03
Beta2y	0.81
Ch YTD	5.65
High	26.09
High52	34.2
High52 Date	2025-09-17
High52ch	-25.15%
Low	25.2
Low52	17.31
Low52 Date	2026-03-20
Low52ch	47.89%
Ma50ch	11.65%
Price vs 200-day SMA	3.36%
RSI	53.54
RSI Monthly	56.8
RSI Weekly	56.01
Sharpe ratio	0.26x
Sortino ratio	0.5
Total Return	-2.7%
Tr YTD	5.65
Tr15y	183.37%
Tr1m	12.43%
Tr1w	-5.54%
Tr3m	19.29%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	2
Analyst Ratings	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$0.3
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	30.43
Earnings Revenue Estimate	60,800,000x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	31.91x
Operating Income	$16.2M
Operating Income Growth	16.75
Operating Income Growth Q	427.8
Operating Income Growth3 Y	90.24
Operating Income Growth5 Y	26.85
Operating margin	7.61
Price target	$34.5
Price Target Change	$34.77

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	4,334,169%
Float Percent	28.61%
Shares Insiders	36.39%
Shares Institutions	24.15%
Shares Out	15,149,600
Shares Qo Q	1.01%
Shares Yo Y	2.7%
Short Float	6.42%
Short Ratio	3.23
Short Shares	1.84

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$-18.4M
Average Volume	58,513.25x
Bv Per Share	5.63
CAPEX	$-27.4M
Ch10y	166.7
Ch15y	180.1
Ch1m	12.43
Ch1w	-5.54
Ch1y	5.96
Ch20y	328.8
Ch3m	19.29
Ch3y	326.3
Ch5y	426.2
Ch6m	4.92
Change	-0.16%
Change From Open	-0.19
Close	25.64
Days Gap	0.04
Depreciation Amortization	3,980,000
Dollar Volume	1,104,076.8
Earnings Date	2026-05-14
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$16.2M
EBITDA	$20.2M
EPS	$0.89
F Score	4
FCF	$-16.4M
FCF EV Yield	-4.29x
FCF Per Share	$-1.08
Financing CF	-65,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,986
Goodwill	11,704,000
Graham Number	10.62183
Graham Upside	-58.51
Income Tax	$5.8M
Investing CF	-22,040,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-03-17
Last Report Date	2025-12-31
Last Split Date	2006-08-16
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-03-17
Lynch Fair Value	$22.25
Lynch Upside	-13.09
Ma150	23.34
Ma150ch	9.66%
Ma20	26.29
Ma20ch	-2.62%
Net CF	-11,157,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-05-14
Open	25.65
Optionable	No
P OCF Ratio	35.42
Position In Range	44.94
Ppne	48,747,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$19.25
Ptbv Ratio	5.68
Relative Volume	0.74x
Revenue	212,496,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.92x
Share Based Comp	1,947,000
Tax By Revenue	2.74x
Tax Rate	29.6%
Tr20y	333.83%
Tr6m	4.92%
Us State	Illinois
Volume	43,128
Z Score	15.29

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Next action

Research pending

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Income

Does LWAY pay a dividend?

Capital-return profile for this ticker.

Performance

LWAY stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns LWAY?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+24.2%

Float: +28.6% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+36.4%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

LWAY momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

53.5

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+3.4%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.53

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

0.26

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

LWAY vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
COST	Costco Wholesale Corporation	447.6B	52.5x	1.6x	37.8%	+9.9%	+0.7%	Verkopen
KO	The Coca-Cola Company	337.4B	24.7x	6.8x	19.6%	+8.1%	+11.5%	Sterk kopen
MO	Altria Group Inc.	113.8B	14.2x	5.6x	66.4%	-0.3%	+19.7%	Aanhouden

Questions

About LWAY

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What is the current LWAY stock rating?

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