Consumer Defensive
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG(LDSVF)
Live Price
Offline$11,500.00
-0.17% today
1Y Change
-30.44%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
- Market Cap
- $22.09B
- Revenue Growth
- +8.2%
- EPS Growth
- -89.0%
- Dividend Yield
- 1.9%
Coverage: 247 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG (LDSVF) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $22.09B and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $11500.00 and down 30.4% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +8.2%, EPS growth of -89.0%, a dividend yield of 1.9%. What stands out right now is revenue +8.2%, EPS -89.0%, free cash flow -71.5% with operating margin 16.4% and ROIC 10.0%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.9%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 30.3 and price/sales 3.7. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines LDSVF 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
Above sector median
+8.2% vs +1.7% peer median
Operating Margin
Above sector median
+16.4% vs +6.6% peer median
P/E
Above sector median
30.3 vs 14.0 peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report landed above expectations
2026 was reported on Mar 10, 2026 with an EPS surprise of +4.0% and a revenue surprise of +0.3%.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at +8.2% and EPS is at -89.0%, with operating margin around 16.4%.
The next real check-in already has a date
The next earnings event is scheduled for Jul 21, 2026, which is the clearest near-term catalyst for confirming whether the current trend is holding up.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -2.4% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 0 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS Δ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 Mar 10, 2026 | +4.0% | -3.1% | -1.7% | -3.4% |
2025 Jul 22, 2025 | +890.5% | +0.0% | -5.6% | -8.5% |
2025 Mar 4, 2025 | +954.4% | +0.0% | +0.0% | -0.9% |
Benchmark Edge
LDSVF 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
LDSVF Max Drawdown
-34.22%
Trailing 1Y
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Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for LDSVF and SPY.
Company Overview
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG
Other OTC
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of chocolate products worldwide. The company sells its products under the Lindt, Ghirardelli, Russell Stover, Whitman's, Caffarel, Hofbauer, Küfferle, and Pangburn's brands. It serves customers through a network of distributors, as well as through approximately 500 own shops. Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG was founded in 1845 and is headquartered in Kilchberg, Switzerland.
- Leadership
- Adalbert Lechner
- IPO Date
- Sep 24, 2010
- Employees
- 15.0k
- Street Address
- Seestrasse 204
- Mailing
- Kilchberg, 8802
- Region
- Kilchberg, CH
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 41 44 716 22 33
- Last Updated
- May 1, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 30.3
- EV/EBITDA
- 18.2
- Price/Sales
- 3.7
- Price/Book
- 4.4
Growth
- Revenue
- +8.2%
- EPS
- -89.0%
- Free Cash Flow
- -71.5%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 50.4%
- Operating Margin
- 16.4%
- Net Margin
- 12.3%
- ROE
- 15.0%
- ROIC
- 10.0%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.36
- Current Ratio
- 1.83
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
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