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

Lifeway Foods filings provide 16 years of Operating Margin readings, the most recent being 6.8% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin rose 528.0% to 6.8% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 7.61%, a 20.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 7.61%, up 20.0% from a year prior.
  • Operating Margin hit 6.8% in Q4 2025 for Lifeway Foods, down from 8.82% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 13.67% in Q4 2023 to a low of 13.87% in Q4 2021.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 6.69% (2021), compared with a mean of 5.62%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: soared 1934bps in 2022 and later crashed -1215bps in 2024.
  • Lifeway Foods' Operating Margin stood at 13.87% in 2021, then surged by 139bps to 5.47% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 150bps to 13.67% in 2023, then crashed by -89bps to 1.52% in 2024, then soared by 347bps to 6.8% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 6.8% (Q4 2025), 8.82% (Q3 2025), and 10.75% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.