Lifeway Foods, Inc. (LWAY)
Consumer · NGM · US
Price as at 30 Sept 2026, 20:55 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Lifeway Foods, Inc. trades at $21.19. We do not hold enough of the inputs to value this company with the confidence the estimate implies, so we publish no fair value for it rather than a number we would not defend.
Our moat model scores it 41 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 30.5 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
LWAY dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | $0.080 | 1 |
| 2012 | $0.070 | 1 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
LWAY earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 3 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Lifeway Foods, Inc.
Lifeway Foods, Inc. produces and markets probiotic-based products in North America. The company's primary product is drinkable kefir, a cultured dairy product in various organic and non-organic sizes, flavors, and milk types. It offers European-style soft cheeses, including farmer and white cheeses, and sweet kiss; cream and other products; drinkable yogurt; ProBugs, a line of kefir products designed for children; and Fresh Made butter and sour cream. The company sells its products under the Lifeway, Fresh Made, and GlenOaks Farms brand names, as well as under private labels on behalf of customers primarily through direct sales force, brokers, and distributors. Lifeway Foods, Inc. was incorporated in 1986 and is based in Morton Grove, Illinois.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
Super investor ownership
7 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$27.75M · 0.0% of book
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$11.25M · 0.0% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$6.81M · 0.0% of book
- Mario Gabelli, GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. ET AL$6.39M · 0.1% of book
- Paul Tudor Jones, TUDOR INVESTMENT CORP ET AL$6.26M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
LWAY peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Packaged Foods), then in the same sector.
- JBS JBS N.V.
- SAP.TO Saputo Inc.
- SJM The J. M. Smucker Company
- SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc.
- PPC Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
- CAG Conagra Brands, Inc.
- INGR Ingredion Incorporated
- A2M.AX The a2 Milk Company Limited
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Common questions
Which funds own LWAY?
7 of the institutions we track reported a position in LWAY in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is LWAY's P/E ratio?
LWAY trades at 30.5 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
When does LWAY report earnings next?
Lifeway Foods, Inc. is scheduled to report on 12 Nov 2026. Companies move earnings dates, so read it as scheduled rather than certain.
Where does SteadyShares get its LWAY data?
Fundamentals for LWAY come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NGM; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 30 Sept 2026, 20:55 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 96/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.