Growth Metrics

Lifeway Foods (LWAY) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Lifeway Foods' Return on Invested Capital history spans 14 years, with the latest figure at 0.14% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital rose 1.0% year-over-year to 0.14%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.14%, up 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.14%, 1.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital reached 0.14% in Q4 2025 per LWAY's latest filing, up from 0.11% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 0.21% in Q1 2024 to a low of 0.02% in Q3 2022.
  • Average Return on Invested Capital over 5 years is 0.1%, with a median of 0.11% recorded in 2025.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: rose 18bps in 2023, then dropped -11bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.01% in 2021, then soared by 70bps to 0.02% in 2022, then surged by 729bps to 0.2% in 2023, then tumbled by -37bps to 0.12% in 2024, then rose by 8bps to 0.14% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LWAY's Return on Invested Capital are 0.14% (Q4 2025), 0.11% (Q3 2025), and 0.11% (Q2 2025).