Is the business good?
How good a business is WMK?
Weis Markets, Inc. earns 8.6% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
8.6%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.40 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 2.5%
Operating margin · Grocery Stores median 2.5% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.24×
Cash conversion · −0.01× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −8.0%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 4.0% |
| FY2022 | 3.3% |
| FY2023 | 2.8% |
| FY2024 | 2.6% |
| FY2025 | 2.3% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 25%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 2.5%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 2.0%
- Free cash flow margin
- 0.48%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $5.01B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $24M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $102M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 8.6%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Grocery Stores
Ranks #4 of 4 by Smart Score