Consumer Defensive
Ingles Markets, Incorporated(IMKTA)
Live Price
Offline$87.62
-0.80% today
1Y Change
+41.47%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 15, 2026
- Market Cap
- $1.74B
- Revenue Growth
- -5.4%
- EPS Growth
- -20.8%
- Dividend Yield
- 0.7%
Coverage: 244 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 15, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Ingles Markets, Incorporated (IMKTA) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $1.74B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $87.61 and up 41.5% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 15, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -5.4%, EPS growth of -20.8%, a dividend yield of 0.7%. What stands out right now is revenue -5.4%, EPS -20.8%, free cash flow -23.4% with operating margin 2.5% and ROIC 4.4%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 0.7%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 18.3 and price/sales 0.3. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines IMKTA price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Below sector median
-5.4% vs +1.7% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
+2.5% vs +6.6% peer median
P/E
Above sector median
18.3 vs 14.0 peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at -5.4% and EPS is at -20.8%, with operating margin around 2.5%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 0.7%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Benchmark Edge
IMKTA vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
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Relative to SPY
IMKTA Max Drawdown
-11.69%
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Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for IMKTA and SPY.
Company Overview
Ingles Markets, Incorporated
NASDAQ Global Select
Ingles Markets, Incorporated operates a chain of supermarkets in the southeast United States. It offers food products, including grocery, meat and dairy products, produce, frozen foods, and other perishables; and non-food products, which include fuel centers, pharmacies, health and beauty care products, and general merchandise, as well as private label items. The company also owns and operates a milk processing and packaging plant that supplies organic milk, fruit juices, and bottled water products to other retailers, food service distributors, and grocery warehouses. In addition, it provides home meal replacement items, delicatessens, bakeries, floral departments, and greeting cards, as well as broad selections of local organic, beverage, and health-related items. As of September 25, 2021, the company operated 189 supermarkets under the brand name Ingles, and nine supermarkets under the brand name Sav-Mor in western North Carolina, western South Carolina, northern Georgia, eastern Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, and northeastern Alabama, as well as 111 pharmacies and 107 fuel stations. Ingles Markets, Incorporated was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina.
- Leadership
- James W. Lanning
- IPO Date
- Sep 22, 1987
- Employees
- 11.1k
- Street Address
- 2913 U.S. Hwy.
- Mailing
- Asheville, NC, 28711
- Region
- Asheville, NC, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 828 669 2941
- Last Updated
- Apr 30, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 18.3
- EV/EBITDA
- 7.2
- Price/Sales
- 0.3
- Price/Book
- 1.1
Growth
- Revenue
- -5.4%
- EPS
- -20.8%
- Free Cash Flow
- -23.4%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 24.1%
- Operating Margin
- 2.5%
- Net Margin
- 1.8%
- ROE
- 5.9%
- ROIC
- 4.4%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.33
- Current Ratio
- 3.36
Earnings Reports
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