Growth Metrics

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

Lifeway Foods filings provide 16 years of Gross Margin readings, the most recent being 27.75% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Gross Margin rose 240.0% to 27.75% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 27.39%, a 139.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 27.39%, up 139.0% from a year prior.
  • Gross Margin hit 27.75% in Q4 2025 for Lifeway Foods, 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.
  • Median Gross Margin over the past 5 years was 25.79% (2024), compared with a mean of 24.54%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Gross Margin: plummeted -1104bps in 2022 and later soared 1174bps in 2023.
  • Lifeway Foods' Gross Margin 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.
  • The last three reported values for Gross Margin were 27.75% (Q4 2025), 28.71% (Q3 2025), and 28.57% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.