Valuation
26% of the score
63median 50
Lifeway Foods, Inc. is valued at 20.5x its operating profit, including debt: a rich multiple.
60x
50x
35x
25x
18x
12x
8x
20.5x
Full points at 8x or less, none from 60xfull points
LWAYLifeway Foods, Inc.
$22.20-17% 1Y
$22.20
$17.8052 weeks$32.29
RyuScore
Seven criteria, each scored 0 to 100 on a published scale, weighted into one number.
RyuScore 72 out of 100, Above average
Above average. Lifeway Foods, Inc. scores higher than 80% of the 2,291 companies Ryufin scores.
Carried by return on new capital and capital allocation, with nothing holding it far back.
Consumer Defensive median 62 · all companies 54
Return on capital
18% of the score
57median 23
Over 7 years the business earned 10% a year after tax on the capital it uses.
2%
8%
15%
25%
10%
None at 2% or less, full points from 25%full points
7 years agolatest 16%
Return on new capital
16% of the score
100median 33
For every dollar of operating profit earned over 6 years, yearly profit grew by 18 cents. New capital earned 29%, and 61% of profit went back into the business.
-5%
12%
18%
None at minus 5 cents, full points from 12 centsfull points
Capital allocation
14% of the score
80median 63
How management spends the money: shares bought back or issued, and whether assets grow faster than the business they serve.
Share countDown 0.3% a year over 5 years: buybacks
665%
-3%
-0.3%
0 pointsfull points
Assets against salesAssets grew 12% a year, sales 16%
10012%
-2%
-4.3%
0 pointsfull points
Cycle position
12% of the score
51median 63
Today's operating margin of 6.5% is 1.18x its normal 5.5%: above its usual level. 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
1.2x
A trough earns points, a peak costs themfull points
10 years agonow 6.5%
Balance sheet
8% of the score
100median 50
What the debt weighs against the profit that has to carry it.
Interest coverOperating profit covers interest 48x
1001.5x
12x
48.4x
0 pointsfull points
Earnings quality
6% of the score
62median 90
Whether the reported profit arrives as cash, and whether the accounts show the usual signs of stretching.
Cash against profitOperating cash flow was 1.19x profit over 3 years
860.7x
1x
1.3x
1.2x
0 pointsfull points
AccrualsProfit ran ahead of cash by 3% of assets
388%
0%
-8%
3%
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 2026-06-30, latest annual report FY2025.