Consumer Defensive
Live Price
Offline$31.87
+1.14% today
1Y Change
-23.29%
Window
Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Coverage: 244 bars · Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NGVC) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $680.00M and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $31.87 and down 23.3% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +7.2%, EPS growth of +35.6%, a dividend yield of 1.8%. What stands out right now is revenue +7.2%, EPS +35.6%, free cash flow -31.3% with operating margin 4.7% and ROIC 9.1%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.8%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 14.2 and price/sales 0.5. Stock Foundry combines NGVC 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
NGVC is 44.15 pts behind over the shared 1Y window.
NGVC had 33.15 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.
NGVC beat SPY in 1 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 1.
NGVC
-23.29%
Normalized return
SPY
+20.86%
S&P 500
Excess Return
-44.15 pts
Relative to SPY
NGVC Max Drawdown
-42.28%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for NGVC and SPY.
| Year | NGVC | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +21.90% | +6.71% | +15.20 pts | NGVC |
| 2025 | -35.97% | +11.19% | -47.17 pts | SPY |
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