Lifeway Foods (LWAY) Tax Rate (2010 - 2025)

Lifeway Foods (LWAY) posted Tax Rate of 94.59% for Q4 2025, down 408.17% on a QoQ basis from 30.7% in Q3 2025, and up 32693.0% year-over-year from N/an in Q4 2024.

Lifeway Foods (LWAY) Tax Rate (2010 - 2025) Analysis & Trends

Lifeway Foods' Tax Rate history runs 16 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 94.59% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Tax Rate rose 32693.0% year-over-year to 94.59% in Q4 2025, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 was 5.77% (up 49.0% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at 5.77%, up 49.0% from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate was 94.59% for Q4 2025 at Lifeway Foods, down from 30.7% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Tax Rate topped out at 125.76% in Q4 2021 and bottomed at 421.52% in Q4 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 4.16% and a median of 30.81% in 2023 frame the typical range for Tax Rate.
  • Annual changes were most pronounced in 2024 — Tax Rate slumped 37890 bps — and 2025, when it surged 32693 bps.
  • Lifeway Foods' Tax Rate stood at 125.76% in 2021, then tumbled by 55 bps to 56.21% in 2022, then tumbled by 176 bps to 42.62% in 2023, then plunged by 889 bps to 421.52% in 2024, then jumped by 78 bps to 94.59% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows LWAY's Tax Rate at 94.59% in Q4 2025, 30.7% in Q3 2025, and 28.12% in Q2 2025.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Tax Rate (Qtr)
1 Kraft Heinz 30.05 Bn 26.07 Bn 2.22 Bn 20.89%
2 General Mills 19.11 Bn 18.67 Bn 1.60 Bn 10.77%
3 Hormel Foods 13.78 Bn 12.93 Bn 518.51 Mn 23.63%
4 Mccormick 13.51 Bn 13.76 Bn 778.20 Mn 28.84%
5 Magnum Ice Cream 10.87 Bn 10.35 Bn - -
6 Smithfield Foods 10.26 Bn 8.88 Bn 511.00 Mn 22.29%
7 Darling Ingredients 10.06 Bn 10.02 Bn 404.92 Mn 21.99%
8 Conagra Brands 6.88 Bn 6.66 Bn 704.10 Mn 32.34%
9 Lamb Weston Holdings 6.84 Bn 6.78 Bn 361.40 Mn 11.46%
10 Lifeway Foods 523.92 Mn 518.35 Mn 15.36 Mn -94.59%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Dec 31, 2025 -94.59%
Dec 31, 2025 -94.59%
Dec 31, 2025 -94.59%
Sep 30, 2025 30.70%
Sep 30, 2025 30.70%
Sep 30, 2025 30.70%
Jun 30, 2025 28.12%
Jun 30, 2025 28.12%
Jun 30, 2025 28.12%
Mar 31, 2025 28.72%
Mar 31, 2025 28.72%
Mar 31, 2025 28.72%
Dec 31, 2024 -421.52%
Dec 31, 2024 -421.52%
Dec 31, 2024 -421.52%
Sep 30, 2024 31.21%
Sep 30, 2024 31.21%
Sep 30, 2024 31.21%
Jun 30, 2024 29.41%
Jun 30, 2024 29.41%