LWAYLifeway Foods, Inc.

$21.14-20% 1Y

Is the price fair?

Mixed

In its normal P/E range. That is the only one of 3 checks this filer's data supports, so take it as a single data point rather than a settled answer.

1 neutral, 2 without data
Vs its own P/E rangemid-range for this companyderived

In its normal range: P/E 30.6 vs a 30.1 median over 31 quarters (+2% vs median).

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What LWAY's price assumes

Lifeway Foods, Inc. trades at 30.6× earnings against 14.6× for the median Packaged Foods name, more expensive than its own group.

30.6

Trailing P/E · Packaged Foods median 14.6 · 2.09× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales
1.29

Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1

Price / book
3.27

Price / book · as of 2026-Q1

EV / sales
1.30

EV / sales

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Price / bookas of 2026-Q1
3.27
EV / EBITas of 2026-Q1
14.2
EV / salesas of 2026-Q1
1.30
Consumer Defensive median P/E142 names
20.2
Packaged Foods median P/E37 names
14.6
Market capitalisation
$323M
What the market has paid for these earnings: 31 quarters of its own multiple × $0.69 of trailing earnings per share
MethodPer share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile$13.58
Its own P/E history, median$20.80
Its own P/E history, upper quartile$32.11
52-week range$17.80 – $32.29
Today$21.14

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.