Lifeway Foods (LWAY) Gross Margin (2010 - 2025)
Lifeway Foods (LWAY) reported Gross Margin of 27.75% for Q4 2025, up 2.40 percentage points from 25.35% a year earlier but down 0.96 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Lifeway Foods (LWAY) Gross Margin (2010 - 2025) Analysis & Trends
For FY2025, Lifeway Foods posted Gross Margin of 27.39%, up 1.39 percentage points from FY2024.
- Gross Margin has a five-year change of +0.99 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- By year, Gross Margin came in at 26.00% in FY2024 (-0.50 pp), 26.51% in FY2023 (+7.58 pp), 18.92% in FY2022 (-5.19 pp) and 24.11% in FY2021 (-2.29 pp).
- Five-year quarterly Gross Margin spans a low of 16.36% in Q1 2022 and a high of 28.75% in Q2 2023.
- Year over year, Gross Margin has now increased in each of the last three quarters, with an average year-over-year change of +0.41 percentage points over the last eight quarters.
- The high point for year-over-year Gross Margin in five years was Q2 2023 (a gain of 11.74 percentage points); the low point was Q1 2022 (a drop of 11.04 percentage points).
- Per Business Quant data, the three quarters before Q4 2025 came in at 28.71% (Q3 2025), 28.57% (Q2 2025) and 23.94% (Q1 2025).
Peer Set
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | Gross Margin (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unilever | 136.33 Bn | 111.70 Bn | - | - |
| 2 | Mondelez International | 76.81 Bn | 70.13 Bn | 3.99 Bn | 42.61% |
| 3 | Hershey | 33.25 Bn | 29.49 Bn | 1.26 Bn | 45.32% |
| 4 | Kraft Heinz | 27.93 Bn | 14.46 Bn | 2.03 Bn | 32.39% |
| 5 | General Mills | 17.97 Bn | 15.62 Bn | 1.49 Bn | 33.88% |
| 6 | Mccormick | 13.05 Bn | 12.93 Bn | 778.20 Mn | 40.18% |
| 7 | J M Smucker | 12.89 Bn | 12.67 Bn | 979.60 Mn | 44.14% |
| 8 | Hormel Foods | 10.99 Bn | 7.67 Bn | 471.52 Mn | 15.92% |
| 9 | Chewy | 7.48 Bn | 4.77 Bn | 1.01 Bn | 30.36% |
| 10 | Lifeway Foods | 322.64 Mn | 322.64 Mn | - | - |
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Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2025 | 27.75% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 28.71% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 28.57% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 23.94% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 25.35% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 25.74% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 27.01% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 25.84% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 28.01% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 27.25% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 28.75% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 21.70% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 22.10% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 19.90% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 17.01% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 16.36% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 19.34% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 23.66% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 26.33% |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 27.40% |
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Lifeway Foods Gross Margin API
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=gross-margin&ticker=LWAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
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params = {"slug": "gross-margin", "ticker": "LWAY", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=gross-margin&ticker=LWAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();