Lifeway Foods is a packaged foods business based in the US. Lifeway Foods shares (LWAY) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $26.40 – a decrease of 0.86% over the previous week. Lifeway Foods employs 288 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $176.8 million.
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| Latest market close | $26.40 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $9.06 - $28.61 |
| 50-day moving average | $21.17 |
| 200-day moving average | $16.50 |
| Wall St. target price | $26.50 |
| PE ratio | 29.3222 |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.90 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $26.49 from 2024-10-17
| 1 week (2024-10-11) | -0.53% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-09-19) | 21.51% |
| 3 months (2024-07-19) | 118.02% |
| 6 months (2024-04-19) | 36.55% |
| 1 year (2023-10-19) | 122.05% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-10-17) | 398.33% |
| 3 years (2021-10-19) | 373.04% |
| 5 years (2019-10-18) | 1,132.09% |
Valuing Lifeway Foods stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Lifeway Foods's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Lifeway Foods's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 29x. In other words, Lifeway Foods shares trade at around 29x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Lifeway Foods's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 7.54. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Lifeway Foods's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Lifeway Foods's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $23 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Lifeway Foods's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $176.8 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 10.96% |
| Gross profit TTM | $29.2 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 15.71% |
| Return on equity TTM | 22.62% |
| Profit margin | 7.69% |
| Book value | $4.60 |
| Market Capitalization | $390.3 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Lifeway Foods to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Lifeway Foods's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 15 August 2006 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Lifeway Foods shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Lifeway Foods shares which in turn could have impacted Lifeway Foods's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Lifeway Foods's shares have ranged in value from as little as $9.06 up to $28.61. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Lifeway Foods's is 1.036. This would suggest that Lifeway Foods's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Lifeway Foods, Inc. produces and markets probiotic-based products in the United States and internationally. Its primary product is drinkable kefir, a cultured dairy product in various organic and non-organic sizes, flavors, and types. The company offers European-style soft cheeses; cream and other products; ProBugs, a line of kefir products designed for children; drinkable yogurt; and fresh made butter and sour cream. It sells its products under the Lifeway, GlenOaks Farms, and Fresh Made brand names, as well as under private labels on behalf of customers primarily through direct sales force, brokers, and distributors. Lifeway Foods, Inc. was incorporated in 1986 and is based in Morton Grove, Illinois.
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