Consumer Defensive
Live Price
Offline$7.05
+0.43% today
1Y Change
-44.05%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 16, 2026
Coverage: 247 bars · Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 16, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Utz Brands, Inc. (UTZ) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $690.00M and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $7.05 and down 44.0% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 16, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +2.1%, EPS growth of -95.2%, a dividend yield of 3.2%. What stands out right now is revenue +2.1%, EPS -95.2%, free cash flow +24.9% with operating margin -4.5% and ROIC -2.6%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 3.2%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 847.8 and price/sales 0.5. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines UTZ price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
Benchmark Comparison
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UTZ
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
UTZ Max Drawdown
-53.07%
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
$1.2B
-16.2% YoY
FY Net Income
$20.6M
+5343.6% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$14.9M
+137.4% YoY
Revenue Growth
+2.1%
EPS Growth
-95.2%
Gross Margin
24.3%
Net Margin
0.1%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.2B |
| Gross Profit | 322M | 495M | 456M | 449M | 384M |
| Operating Income | 99M | 59M | 16M | 5M | 11M |
| EBITDA | 181M | 182M | 99M | 91M | 128M |
| Net Income | 800K | 16M | -25M | -392K | 21M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
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| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 120M | 56M | 52M | 73M | 42M |
| Total Assets | 2.8B | 2.7B | 2.7B | 2.8B | 2.7B |
| Total Liabilities | 1.4B | 1.3B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.3B |
| Shareholder Equity | 714M | 702M | 669M | 703M | 680M |
| Total Debt | 1.2B | 941M | 985M | 992M | 909M |
| Net Debt | 1.0B | 885M | 933M | 920M | 867M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
48M
+0.4% YoY
Capital Expenditures
33M
+61.9% YoY
Free Cash Flow
15M
+137.4% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
24.3%
Operating Margin
-4.5%
Net Margin
0.1%
ROE
0.1%
Debt / Equity
1.64x
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