Consumer Defensive
Live Price
Offline$11,729.48
+1.08% today
1Y Change
-30.44%
Window
Jun 27, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Coverage: 245 bars · Jun 27, 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 $11729.48 and down 30.4% across the available one-year price window (Jun 27, 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.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
LDSVF
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
LDSVF Max Drawdown
-34.22%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
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Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$4.6B
-7.7% YoY
FY Net Income
$490.5M
-13.9% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$586.0M
+11.4% YoY
Revenue Growth
+8.2%
EPS Growth
-89.0%
Gross Margin
50.4%
Net Margin
12.3%
Income statement
CHF
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 5.9B | 5.5B | 5.2B | 5.0B | 4.6B |
| Gross Profit | 2.3B | 3.6B | 3.5B | 3.3B | 3.1B |
| Operating Income | 981M | 884M | 813M | 745M | 645M |
| EBITDA | 1.3B | 1.2B | 1.1B | 1.0B | 924M |
| Net Income | 728M | 672M | 671M | 570M | 491M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
CHF
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 669M | 931M | 462M | 865M | 937M |
| Total Assets | 9.3B | 9.2B | 7.9B | 7.9B | 9.0B |
| Total Liabilities | 4.3B | 4.3B | 3.6B | 3.5B | 3.7B |
| Shareholder Equity | 5.0B | 4.8B | 4.3B | 4.4B | 5.2B |
| Total Debt | 1.8B | 1.7B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.5B |
| Net Debt | 1.1B | 733M | 944M | 572M | 545M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
827M
+9.4% YoY
Capital Expenditures
241M
-4.7% YoY
Free Cash Flow
586M
+11.4% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
50.4%
Operating Margin
16.4%
Net Margin
12.3%
ROE
15.0%
Debt / Equity
0.36x
Next Step
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