Lifeway Foods (LWAY) Operating Margin (2010 - 2025)
Lifeway Foods' Operating Margin came in at 6.80% for Q4 2025, up 5.28 percentage points from 1.52% a year earlier but down 2.02 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Lifeway Foods (LWAY) Operating Margin (2010 - 2025) Analysis & Trends
For FY2025, Lifeway Foods' Operating Margin was 7.61%, up 0.20 percentage points from FY2024.
- Operating Margin carries a five-year change of +2.79 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- Going back by year, Operating Margin was 7.41% in FY2024 (-3.20 pp), 10.61% in FY2023 (+8.95 pp), 1.66% in FY2022 (-3.28 pp) and 4.94% in FY2021 (+0.11 pp).
- The five-year range for quarterly Operating Margin is -3.08% (Q1 2022) to 13.67% (Q4 2023).
- Year-over-year, Operating Margin increased in two of the last eight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -1.52 percentage points.
- The fastest year-over-year change in Operating Margin over five years came in Q2 2023 (a gain of 11.43 percentage points), and the weakest in Q4 2024 (a drop of 12.15 percentage points).
- Business Quant data shows LWAY's Operating Margin at 8.82% (Q3 2025), 10.75% (Q2 2025) and 3.41% (Q1 2025) in the three quarters before Q4 2025.
Peer Set
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | Operating Margin (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unilever | 136.33 Bn | 111.70 Bn | - | - |
| 2 | Mondelez International | 76.81 Bn | 70.13 Bn | 3.99 Bn | 20.80% |
| 3 | Hershey | 33.25 Bn | 29.49 Bn | 1.26 Bn | 23.06% |
| 4 | Kraft Heinz | 27.93 Bn | 14.46 Bn | 2.03 Bn | -102.70% |
| 5 | General Mills | 17.97 Bn | 15.62 Bn | 1.49 Bn | 14.43% |
| 6 | Mccormick | 13.05 Bn | 12.93 Bn | 778.20 Mn | 14.27% |
| 7 | J M Smucker | 12.89 Bn | 12.67 Bn | 979.60 Mn | 23.05% |
| 8 | Hormel Foods | 10.99 Bn | 7.67 Bn | 471.52 Mn | 3.75% |
| 9 | Chewy | 7.48 Bn | 4.77 Bn | 1.01 Bn | 2.76% |
| 10 | Lifeway Foods | 322.64 Mn | 322.64 Mn | - | - |
Historic Data
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Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2025 | 6.80% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 8.82% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 10.75% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 3.41% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 1.52% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 9.09% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 10.96% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 7.98% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 13.67% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 12.32% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 12.15% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 3.79% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 5.47% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 3.13% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 0.72% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | -3.08% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 1.31% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 3.53% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 8.55% |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 6.59% |
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Lifeway Foods Operating Margin API
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=operating-margin&ticker=LWAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "operating-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=operating-margin&ticker=LWAY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();