LWAY

Lifeway Foods, Inc.
NasdaqGMUSDEQUITY Consumer Defensive DELAYED
Last price
25.93
▲ 0.02 (0.08%)
MARKET ·

Price

Open
25.98
Prev close
25.91
Day high
25.98
Day low
25.36
Volume
123.83K
Market cap
$391.72M
P/E (TTM)
37.58
52W range
17.31 – 34.20

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+0.43% +1.8%
1M
-14.51% -18.2%
3M
+3.27% +0.2%
6M
+17.97% +6.9%
YTD
+7.02% -5.3%
1Y
-15.23% -35.2%
3Y
+202.92% +128.8%
5Y

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$391.72M
Enterprise value$407.10M
Revenue (TTM)$242.41M
Gross profit$65.88M
EBITDA$20.00M
Net income$10.87M
EPS (TTM)$0.69
Free cash flow$-32.15M
Total cash$7.09M
Total debt$22.47M
Book value / share$5.91
Shares outstanding15.11M
Float6.50M
Short % of float4.93%
Dividend yield
Beta (5Y)0.46

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E37.58
Forward P/E19.21
PEG ratio3.50
Price / sales
Price / book4.39
EV / revenue1.68
EV / EBITDA20.35
Gross margin27.18%
Operating margin0.90%
Profit margin4.49%
Return on equity13.32%
Return on assets8.52%
Debt / equity26.56
Current ratio2.09
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

Annual · as reported
Last 4 fiscal years
Line item2025202420232022
Total revenue$212.50M$186.82M$160.12M$141.57M
Cost of revenue$0$0$0$0
Gross profit$0$0$0$0
R&D
SG&A
Operating income
Pre-tax income
Tax provision$0$0$0$0
Net income$0$9.03M$11.37M$924.00K
EBIT$0$0$0$0

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 0.270.01 -96.2%
Mar 2026 0.300.30 0.0%
Dec 2025 0.290.16 -44.8%
Sep 2025 0.280.23 -17.9%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 0.05 1 $66.83M +17.0%
Next quarter 0.14 1 $65.86M +19.0%
Current year 0.50 1 $262.60M +23.6%
Next year 1.35 1 $298.44M +13.7%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$33.00
High target$35.00
Low target$32.00
Implied upside27.27%
Analyst count3
ConsensusSTRONG BUY
Strong buy / Buy0 / 3
Hold0
Sell / Strong sell0 / 0
Held by insiders39.24%
Held by institutions56.65%
Institutions holding140
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
-3.63M
Net selling
Buy transactions
13
623.72K shares
Sell transactions
14
4.25M shares
Net transactions
+27
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
6.8 : 1
Heavily one-sided
Insider-held shares
5.93M
Total on file
Bought 623.72KSold 4.25M

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Aug 19, 26
SMOLYANSKY JULIE
Chief Executive Officer
BUY 2.00K $50.52K Direct
Aug 17, 26
DIVISADERO STREET CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LP
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security
BUY 246.57K $6.13M Indirect
Aug 14, 26
SMOLYANSKY EDWARD
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security
SELL 110.00K $2.91M Indirect
Jul 22, 26
SMOLYANSKY LUDMILA
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security
SELL 100.00K $3.01M Indirect
Jul 15, 26
SMOLYANSKY EDWARD
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security
SELL 66.92K $2.14M Indirect
Jul 7, 26
SMOLYANSKY EDWARD
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security
SELL 47.08K $1.39M Indirect
Jul 1, 26
SCHER JASON SCOTT
Director
CONVERSION 1.36K $39.93K Direct
Jul 1, 26
MCWHORTER DORRI
Director
1.36K Direct
Jul 1, 26
DALTO JUAN CARLOS
Director
CONVERSION 1.36K $39.93K Direct
Jun 30, 26
SMOLYANSKY EDWARD
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security
SELL 176.09K $5.18M
Jun 25, 26
SMOLYANSKY LUDMILA
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security
SELL 85.62K $2.56M Indirect
Jun 24, 26
SMOLYANSKY EDWARD
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security
SELL 38.45K $1.15M Direct
Jun 22, 26
SMOLYANSKY EDWARD
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security
SELL 50.00K $1.31M Indirect
Jun 16, 26
HANSON ERIC A
Chief Financial Officer
STOCK 2.39K $0 Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
DIVISADERO STREET CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LP
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security Purchase
FELDMAN AMY M
Officer 19.91K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
HANSON ERIC A
Chief Financial Officer 58.89K Stock Award(Grant)
LEVY JODY
Director 26.85K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
MCWHORTER DORRI
Director 27.29K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
SIKAR POL
Director 22.21K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
SMOLYANSKY EDWARD
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security Sale
SMOLYANSKY JULIE
Chief Executive Officer 2.74M Purchase
SMOLYANSKY LUDMILA
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security Sale
ZOLEZZI WILLIAM
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security Purchase

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
26.65
-2.69% from price
SMA 20
28.54
-9.13% from price
SMA 50
29.00
-10.58% from price
SMA 100
26.91
-3.66% from price
SMA 200
24.57
+5.56% from price
EMA 12
26.92
-3.68% from price
EMA 26
28.09
-7.70% from price
EMA 50
28.12
-7.79% from price
RSI (14)
39.3
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-1.17
Hist -0.46
ATR (14)
1.65
6.38% of price
Realised vol 30D
61.0%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
33.39
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
23.68
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Golden
29.00 vs 24.57
Trend bias
Above 200
+5.56%

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.41
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.11
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
61.0%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
12.9%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-47.4%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-60.5%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
1.65
6.38% of price
Beta (reported)
0.46
5Y monthly, from filing

Unusual options activity

Account required
Flagged2
Total notional$154.00K
Call notional$154.00K
Put notional$0
Tiltcall-weighted
Likely opening0 of 2
SideStrikeExpiryVolumeOpen int. Vol / OINotionalIV PrintScore
CALL 30.00 Feb 19, 27
180d
550 557 1.0× $77.00K 53% at bid
44
CALL 35.00 Feb 19, 27
180d
1.10K 1.10K 1.0× $77.00K 58% at bid
44
How this is calculated, and what it cannot see

A contract is flagged when today's volume approaches or exceeds its open interest, the position is worth at least $40,000, and at least 150 contracts changed hands. Open interest is what was outstanding at yesterday's close, so volume above it means the flow cannot all be closing — something is being opened.

The score weights four things: volume against open interest, dollar notional, volume against the rest of that chain, and where the last print sat inside the bid/ask spread.

What it cannot see. Volume here is a daily total, so ten small orders and one large one are indistinguishable — this is not block or sweep detection, which needs exchange-level time and sales. The print column compares the last trade to the current quote, which is a proxy for who was the aggressor, not a tagged flag. Quotes are delayed. A single large trade can be a hedge, a roll, or one leg of a spread, and none of those mean what a naked directional bet would mean.

Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
0.50
Call-heavy session
Put / call open interest
0.01
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
25.00
-3.6% from spot
ATM implied vol
47.5%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
+68.7%
Puts bid over calls
Call volume
2
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
1
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
30.00
100 contracts
Heaviest put OI
30.00
2 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Options chain

Account required
ExpirySpot 25.93
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
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000.000.000.000.00000.0%
Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

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