# Lifeway Foods share price today (Lifeway Foods, Inc., LWAY)

> Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. LWAY · Consumer Staples · Packaged Foods · data as of 3 November 2026. Page: https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/lway

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## Key numbers

- Business trend: Turning around, from the last 12 quarters
- Price: $22.23 (−7.3% in a year)
- P/E: 32.1× (lower than 51% of the last 1 year)
- Revenue (Jun 2026): $66.9 M (+24.1% on a year ago)
- Profit (Jun 2026): $127 K (−97.0% on a year ago)
- Operating margin: 0.9% (−9.9 points on a year ago)
- ROE: 16%, FY25
- ROIC: 11.5%, against a 6.6% cost of capital: +4.9 points

The main question: yearly earnings per share moved +48.3% while the share price moved −7.3%. ## What is the Lifeway Foods share price today? Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s share price was $22.23 at the close on 3 November 2026. That is 9.5% below its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $18 and $32, and at that close it sat 31% of the way up from that low. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, and it has been behind for 9 weeks running. Over the last 1 year the share price moved −11% while the S&P 500 moved +21%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 4 September 2026. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week. This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row. ## What dividend does Lifeway Foods pay? Lifeway Foods, Inc. pays no dividend. In the last 12 reported quarters it declared no dividend per share, so there is no payout history to chart and no yield to show. Companies like this usually keep their earnings in the business, so the cash-flow sections show where that cash goes. ## Which stock lists is Lifeway Foods on? Lifeway Foods is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list. ## Is Lifeway Foods profitable? Lifeway Foods, Inc. earned $127 K of net profit in the Jun 2026 quarter, −97.0% on the same quarter a year earlier. Full-year FY25 profit was $13.9 M. Over 4 years profit has grown 43.0% a year on average. That is 0.2% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $4.2 M. 1 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making. For the full year, FY25 profit was $13.9 M (+53.6% on the year before). Why profit moved: revenue changed +24.1% on a year earlier and the margin moved −9.9 percentage points. Sales did the work while the margin got thinner. On average over the last four quarters, profit changed −15.5% and revenue +25.7%. Profit is growing slower than sales: rising costs are taking part of the growth. ## How much revenue does Lifeway Foods make, and is it growing? Lifeway Foods, Inc. reported $66.9 M of revenue in the Jun 2026 quarter, +24.1% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 12th quarter in a row with growth on the year before. Over 4 years it has grown 15.6% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at $212 M. The last four reported quarters add to $242 M. FY25 revenue was $212 M, +13.7% on the year before. Recent pace: the last four quarters grew +25.7% on average, against 15.6% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing faster than its own long-run rate. Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew +25.6%, against +17.1% a year over the last 8 quarters (accelerating); profit over the last 12 months grew +2.5%, against −10.6% a year (accelerating). ## How much of every $100 of sales does Lifeway Foods keep? Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s operating margin was 0.9% in the Jun 2026 quarter, 9.9 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between 1.7% and 10.6%. The latest quarter is below every full year in that period. Why the margin moved: operating margin changed −9.9 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed −9.1 points. So the drop came mostly from the gross margin, which means input costs and prices charged. ## Is Lifeway Foods' profit turning into cash? Over the last 3 years, 119% of Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY25 it brought in $10.9 M of operating cash against $13.9 M of profit. After $27.4 M of spending on assets, free cash was −$16.4 M: it spent more than its operations brought in. Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year. Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason. What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building. ## Where does Lifeway Foods' cash go? Lifeway Foods, Inc. does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent $38.4 M on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 6.0% of FY25 revenue a year. Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn. Spending on assets: $38.4 M over the last 3 years. In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns. ## What is Lifeway Foods' P/E ratio, and how does it compare with its own history? Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s P/E is 32.1×, in the middle of its own history: higher than 49% of past readings. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 32.3×, over 1 year of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth. Why the multiple is where it is: over the past year earnings per share moved +48.3% while the price moved −7.3%. Earnings did better than the price, which pulled the multiple down within its own range. In short: the multiple is about average against its own past, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple. ## Is the Lifeway Foods business getting better or worse? Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s business is turning around. Profit growth has swung from −21.8% at its low to +2.5%, rising from a low 4 quarters ago, with ROCE steady at 16.4%. This is based on 12 quarters of 4 measures. Why it matters: a turn in growth is often where a bigger change starts. The lines say a turn is forming, so the question is whether the next quarters confirm it. ## How much does Lifeway Foods earn on its capital? Lifeway Foods, Inc. earned a ROE of 16% in FY25. That is up from a low of 2% in FY22. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 4.9 percentage points above its cost of capital, so growth here adds value, not just size. It comes from a 6.5% net margin and 2.01× asset turnover (sales divided by assets). Why the return is what it is (FY25): a 6.5% net margin × 2.01× asset turnover × 1.23× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 16.1% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing plays a small part, so this return is earned, not borrowed. The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: 11.5% − 6.6% = +4.9 percentage points. The 6.6% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. Positive but thin: it creates value with little room for error. The 11.5% ROIC above is the latest reading, as reported. The yearly chart below shows FY25 at 16.7%, and the quarterly chart works out each 12-month window from the quarterly figures, so the readings differ by date, not by method. ## Does Lifeway Foods have too much debt? Lifeway Foods, Inc. has total debt of $22.5 M against shareholder equity of $84.6 M as of Jun 2026, so its debt is 0.27× its equity, which is very little. Year by year, that ratio went from 0.07 in FY19 to 0.01 in FY25. So the returns on this page come from the business, not from borrowed money. ## What is the Lifeway Foods shareholding pattern? 10.4% of Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so a large group of traders is betting against it. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 4.2 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead. It is a single reading at one point in time; we do not have its history. Why it is at this level: the figure does not say who holds the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story. ## How far is Lifeway Foods from balance-sheet trouble? For Lifeway Foods, Inc., the Z-score is 8.19. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is well clear of danger. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure. Why it matters: a Z-score of 8.19 is well clear of the danger zone, so the balance sheet is not the risk here. ## How does Lifeway Foods rank in its industry? There is no score against its industry: Lifeway Foods, Inc. is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Packaged Foods. The score ranks a company within its industry: each measure is scored against the other members. Without that group there is no score, so none is shown. ## Which companies is Lifeway Foods compared with? No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison. ## Which companies are close to Lifeway Foods in size? Lifeway Foods is the 32nd largest of 39 Packaged Foods companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 3 November 2026). Just above it: John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc., Mama's Creations, Inc. and Once Upon A Farm, PBC. Just below it: CN Healthy Food Tech Group Corp., USANA Health Sciences, Inc. and Prenetics Global. ### Packaged Foods companies close in size

1. [John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/jbss) $615 million
2. [Mama's Creations, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/mama) $607 million
3. [Once Upon A Farm, PBC](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/ofrm) $400 million
4. Lifeway Foods, Inc. $336 million
5. [CN Healthy Food Tech Group Corp.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/ucfi) $288 million
6. [USANA Health Sciences, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/usna) $275 million
7. [Prenetics Global Limited](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/pre) $274 million

[All 39 Packaged Foods companies, largest first](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/sectors/packaged-foods#all-companies)

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## What else do people ask about Lifeway Foods? ### What were Lifeway Foods's latest quarterly results? Lifeway Foods, Inc. reported revenue of $66.9 M and net profit of $127 K for the Jun 2026 quarter. Revenue rose 24.1% and profit fell 97.0% compared with a year earlier. Earnings per share were $0.01. The operating margin was 0.9%, 9.9 percentage points lower than a year earlier (as of 3 November 2026). ### What is Lifeway Foods's market cap? Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s market capitalisation is $336 M at a stock price of $22.23. Market cap is the share price times the number of shares, so it changes whenever the price moves (as of 3 November 2026). ### How is Lifeway Foods performing? Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s latest readings are below. In its latest quarter, revenue rose 24.1% and profit fell 97.0% compared with a year earlier. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, for 9 weeks running. This describes what the data did, not a rating (as of 3 November 2026). ### Will Lifeway Foods's stock price go up? This page does not forecast Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s stock price. What it shows instead: the stock price is $22.23. Its P/E of 32.1× is higher than 49% of its own last 1 years. Nobody can reliably say which way a price will move, and this site does not try (as of 3 November 2026). ### Is Lifeway Foods's profit real cash? Yes, over the last 3 years, 119% of Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s reported profit came in as cash from operations. The latest year was lower at 79%, so the trend is worth watching. In FY25, operating cash was $10.9 M against reported profit of $13.9 M. Most of that cash then goes into building new capacity. These are yearly figures (as of 3 November 2026). ### Where is Lifeway Foods in its business cycle? Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s FY25 operating margin was 7.6%, against a 5-year range of 1.7% to 10.6%: the middle of its own range, neither a peak nor a low. The latest quarter was 0.9%. Comparing margins with a company's own long history is a good way to see where it is in its cycle (as of 3 November 2026). ### What could break the Lifeway Foods story? The main question: yearly earnings per share moved +48.3% while the share price moved −7.3%. On price, this page treats a rise as over when the share price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row (as of 3 November 2026). ### Is Lifeway Foods a stock worth studying right now? What the numbers show: Lifeway Foods, Inc.'s share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. The main open question: whether the price catches up with earnings that have already grown. Every number on this page is worked out by code from the published figures, with no forecasts and no price opinions (as of 3 November 2026). This is research, not advice. We’re not SEBI-registered.