Consumer Cyclical
Medifast, Inc.(MED)
Live Price
Offline$11.89
-0.25% today
1Y Change
-17.73%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 β Jun 18, 2026
- Market Cap
- $120.00M
- Revenue Growth
- -36.0%
- EPS Growth
- -994.7%
- Dividend Yield
- 0.0%
Coverage: 247 bars Β· Jun 26, 2025 β Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Medifast, Inc. (MED) is a Consumer Cyclical stock with a market cap of $120.00M and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $11.89 and down 17.7% across the available one-year price window (Jun 26, 2025 β Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -36.0%, EPS growth of -994.7%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue -36.0%, EPS -994.7%, free cash flow -92.7% with operating margin -3.7% and ROIC -6.5%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at 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 MED price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Cyclical peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Below sector median
-36.0% vs +7.5% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
-3.7% vs +8.4% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on Apr 27, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at -36.0% and EPS is at -994.7%, with operating margin around -3.7%.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -1.6% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 0 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS Ξ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 Apr 27, 2026 | β | +0.5% | -1.2% | +21.7% |
2026 Feb 17, 2026 | +27.6% | -0.8% | -3.0% | -6.9% |
2025 Nov 3, 2025 | -2000.0% | +0.8% | -0.8% | -7.5% |
Benchmark Edge
MED vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
MED
β
Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
MED Max Drawdown
-37.39%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for MED and SPY.
Company Overview
Medifast, Inc.
New York Stock Exchange
Medifast, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes weight loss, weight management, healthy living products, and other consumable health and nutritional products in the United States and the Asia-Pacific. The company offers bars, bites, pretzels, puffs, cereal crunch, drinks, hearty choices, oatmeal, pancakes, pudding, soft serves, shakes, smoothies, soft bakes, and soups under the OPTAVIA, Optimal Health by Take Shape for Life, and Flavors of Home brands. It markets its products through point-of-sale transactions over ecommerce platform. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Leadership
- Daniel R. Chard
- IPO Date
- Dec 30, 1993
- Employees
- 504
- Street Address
- 100 International Drive
- Mailing
- Baltimore, MD, 21202
- Region
- Baltimore, MD, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 410 581 8042
- Last Updated
- May 2, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- β
- EV/EBITDA
- 32.9
- Price/Sales
- 0.3
- Price/Book
- 0.6
Growth
- Revenue
- -36.0%
- EPS
- -994.7%
- Free Cash Flow
- -92.7%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 71.3%
- Operating Margin
- -3.7%
- Net Margin
- -4.8%
- ROE
- -8.9%
- ROIC
- -6.5%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.08
- Current Ratio
- 4.69
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
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