Growth Metrics

Lifeway Foods (LWAY) Gross Margin (2016 - 2025)

Lifeway Foods' Gross Margin history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 27.75% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Gross Margin rose 240.0% year-over-year to 27.75%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 27.39%, up 139.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 27.39%, 139.0% up from the prior year.
  • Gross Margin reached 27.75% in Q4 2025 per LWAY's latest filing, down from 28.71% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Gross Margin ranged from a high of 28.75% in Q2 2023 to a low of 16.36% in Q1 2022.
  • Average Gross Margin over 5 years is 24.54%, with a median of 25.79% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for Gross Margin: crashed -1104bps in 2022, then surged 1174bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Gross Margin shows it stood at 19.34% in 2021, then rose by 14bps to 22.1% in 2022, then rose by 27bps to 28.01% in 2023, then dropped by -10bps to 25.35% in 2024, then grew by 9bps to 27.75% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LWAY's Gross Margin are 27.75% (Q4 2025), 28.71% (Q3 2025), and 28.57% (Q2 2025).