Consumer Defensive
Live Price
Offline$29.39
-3.10% today
1Y Change
+20.69%
Window
Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Coverage: 247 bars · Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Lifeway Foods, Inc. (LWAY) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $410.00M and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $29.39 and up 20.7% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +13.7%, EPS growth of +49.2%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +13.7%, EPS +49.2%, free cash flow -363.0% with operating margin 7.6% and ROIC 12.8%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 29.8 and price/sales 1.9. Stock Foundry combines LWAY 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.
Relative Read
LWAY is 2.01 pts ahead over the shared 1Y window.
LWAY had 38.24 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.
LWAY beat SPY in 1 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 1.
LWAY
+20.69%
Normalized return
SPY
+18.68%
S&P 500
Excess Return
+2.01 pts
Relative to SPY
LWAY Max Drawdown
-47.37%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for LWAY and SPY.
| Year | LWAY | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +30.48% | +6.71% | +23.78 pts | LWAY |
| 2025 | -3.08% | +11.19% | -14.28 pts | SPY |
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Dividend Yield
No active yield
Trailing 12M Payout
$0.00
Last Payout
| Ex-Date | Record | Pay | Dividend | Adj | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2013 | May 31, 2013 | Jun 28, 2013 | $0.08 | $0.08 | Annual |
| May 25, 2012 | May 30, 2012 | Jun 29, 2012 | $0.07 | $0.07 | Annual |
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