Valuation
26% of the score
48median 13
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. is valued at 16.9x its operating profit, including debt: an ordinary multiple.
25x
20x
15x
10x
6x
16.9x
Full points at 6x or less, none from 25xfull points
LWLamb Weston Holdings, Inc.
$43.19-23% 1Y
$43.19
$38.1452 weeks$65.05
RyuScore
Seven criteria, each scored 0 to 100 on a published scale, weighted into one number.
RyuScore 62 out of 100, Above average
Today's price. Only valuation depends on it.
Above average. Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. scores higher than 71% of the 1,794 companies Ryufin scores.
Carried by cycle position and capital allocation, held back by the balance sheet.
Consumer Defensive median 60 · all companies 50
Return on capital
18% of the score
63median 34
Over 7 years the business earned 12% a year after tax on the capital it uses.
2%
8%
15%
25%
12%
None at 2% or less, full points from 25%full points
7 years agolatest 6.6%
Return on new capital
16% of the score
50median 49
For every dollar of operating profit earned over 6 years, yearly profit grew by 3 cents. New capital earned 2.8%, and 123% of profit went back into the business.
-5%
12%
3.4%
None at minus 5 cents, full points from 12 centsfull points
Capital allocation
14% of the score
82median 64
How management spends the money: shares bought back or issued, and whether assets grow faster than the business they serve.
Share countDown 1.1% a year over 5 years: buybacks
765%
-3%
-1.1%
0 pointsfull points
Assets against salesAssets grew 12% a year, sales 12%
9012%
-2%
-0.6%
0 pointsfull points
Cycle position
12% of the score
100median 62
Today's operating margin of 8.9% is 0.61x its normal 15%: near a trough. Normal is half the 10 year median, half the last four years, so a margin that has held is not taken for a peak.
2x
1.5x
1x
0.7x
0.6x
A trough earns points, a peak costs themfull points
10 years agonow 8.9%
Balance sheet
8% of the score
13median 50
What the debt weighs against the profit that has to carry it.
Net debt to EBITDA4x a year of EBITDA
134.5x
0.5x
4x
0 pointsfull points
Earnings quality
6% of the score
93median 90
Whether the reported profit arrives as cash, and whether the accounts show the usual signs of stretching.
Cash against profitOperating cash flow was 1.90x profit over 3 years
1000.7x
1x
1.3x
1.9x
0 pointsfull points
AccrualsCash ran ahead of profit by 8.8% of assets
1008%
0%
-8%
-8.8%
0 pointsfull points
Beneish M-score-2.58
79-1.50
-1.78
-2.22
-3.00
-2.58
0 pointsfull points
How the RyuScore works
Each criterion earns 0 to 100 points on the scale drawn under it, and the RyuScore is their average weighted 26, 18, 16, 14, 12, 8 and 6. Scales bend in the company's favour between their ends, so an ordinary figure is never already near zero. Where a criterion cannot be measured from the filings it is taken out and the remaining weights scale up; a company needs 60% of the weight covered, and always a price, to get a score.
Built from the company's annual and quarterly filings with the SEC and today's share price. Banks, insurers and property trusts are not scored: their debt is their raw material, so these yardsticks mean something else there. Figures as of 2026-05-31, latest annual report FY2026.