Lifeway Foods (LWAY) Net Margin (2010 - 2025)
Lifeway Foods' Net Margin came in at 4.59% for Q4 2025, up 4.93 percentage points from -0.34% a year earlier but down 1.59 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Lifeway Foods (LWAY) Net Margin (2010 - 2025) Analysis & Trends
For FY2025, Lifeway Foods' Net Margin was 6.52%, up 1.69 percentage points from FY2024.
- Net Margin carries a five-year change of +3.35 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- Going back by year, Net Margin was 4.83% in FY2024 (-2.27 pp), 7.10% in FY2023 (+6.45 pp), 0.65% in FY2022 (-2.13 pp) and 2.78% in FY2021 (-0.39 pp).
- The five-year range for quarterly Net Margin is -2.62% (Q1 2022) to 9.43% (Q4 2023).
- Year-over-year, Net Margin increased in four of the last eight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -0.21 percentage points.
- The fastest year-over-year change in Net Margin over five years came in Q2 2023 (a gain of 7.69 percentage points), and the weakest in Q4 2024 (a drop of 9.77 percentage points).
- Business Quant data shows LWAY's Net Margin at 6.18% (Q3 2025), 7.88% (Q2 2025) and 7.68% (Q1 2025) in the three quarters before Q4 2025.
Peer Set
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | Net Margin (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unilever | 136.33 Bn | 111.70 Bn | - | - |
| 2 | Mondelez International | 76.81 Bn | 70.13 Bn | 3.99 Bn | 16.55% |
| 3 | Hershey | 33.25 Bn | 29.49 Bn | 1.26 Bn | 16.42% |
| 4 | Kraft Heinz | 27.93 Bn | 14.46 Bn | 2.03 Bn | -87.19% |
| 5 | General Mills | 17.97 Bn | 15.62 Bn | 1.49 Bn | 9.04% |
| 6 | Mccormick | 13.05 Bn | 12.93 Bn | 778.20 Mn | 7.75% |
| 7 | J M Smucker | 12.89 Bn | 12.67 Bn | 979.60 Mn | 14.61% |
| 8 | Hormel Foods | 10.99 Bn | 7.67 Bn | 471.52 Mn | 2.01% |
| 9 | Chewy | 7.48 Bn | 4.77 Bn | 1.01 Bn | 2.42% |
| 10 | Lifeway Foods | 322.64 Mn | 322.64 Mn | - | - |
Historic Data
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Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2025 | 4.59% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 6.18% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 7.88% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 7.68% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | -0.34% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 6.46% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 7.70% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 5.44% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 9.43% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 8.34% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 8.04% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 2.19% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 2.00% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 2.58% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 0.36% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | -2.62% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | -0.30% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 1.62% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 5.55% |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 4.45% |
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Lifeway Foods Net Margin API
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Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=net-margin&ticker=LWAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "net-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=net-margin&ticker=LWAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();