Vital Farms, Inc. (VITL)
Consumer Defensive · NGM
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Vital Farms, Inc. trades at USD13.02, which is 129% below the USD29.81 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a DCF is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 48 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. 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 13.0 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.
VITL earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 10 analyst 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 Vital Farms, Inc.
Vital Farms, Inc., a food company, packages, markets, and distributes shell eggs, butter, and other products in the United States. The company produces products sourced from animals raised on family farms, including shell eggs, stick butter, hard-boiled eggs, and liquid whole eggs under the Vital Farms brand and other trade names. It offers its products through third parties and direct to retailers, and commercial and non-commercial foodservice operators. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
VITL passes 3 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
9 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$24.71M · 0.0% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$23.50M · 0.0% of book
- First Eagle, First Eagle Investment Management, LLC$7.51M · 0.0% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$3.75M · 0.0% of book
- Impax Asset Management, Impax Asset Management Group plc$3.37M · 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.
Common questions
Is Vital Farms, Inc. (VITL) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of USD29.81, VITL at USD13.02 is 129% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
Which funds own VITL?
9 of the institutions we track reported a position in VITL 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 VITL's P/E ratio?
VITL trades at 13.0 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 VITL report earnings next?
Vital Farms, Inc. is scheduled to report on 6 Aug 2026. Companies move earnings dates, so read it as scheduled rather than certain.
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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.