Lifeway Foods price to free cash flow LWAY

Market value divided by free cash flow over the last twelve months, since 2012.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: n/m; not a meaningful number
Last meaningful: 282×; Nov 2025
10-year median: 28.4×
10-year range: 6.4× to 414×
Peer median: 14.4×

Lifeway Foods' price to free cash flow is not a meaningful number today: free cash flow over the last twelve months was zero, negative or not reported.

It was last meaningful in Nov 2025, at 282×.

On the days it had one over the last ten years, its median was 28.4×, from 6.4× in Apr 2020 to 414× in Aug 2020.

Price to free cash flow over time

median 28.4×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2025	282×	22.9×	387×
2024	25.6×	15.6×	31.4×
2023	23.2×	19.6×	166×
2022	45.7×	14.2×	49.0×
2021	14.0×	12.1×	43.6×
2020	34.2×	6.4×	414×
2019	7.9×	7.1×	90.2×
2018	n/m a value too high to mean anything
2017	65.9×	32.2×	85.7×
2016	46.2×	32.3×	151×
2015	51.1×	38.3×	172×
2014	117×	115×	123×
2013	41.7×	21.2×	73.3×
2012	20.2×	20.2×	57.4×

Against its peers

Companies in Packaged Foods nearest Lifeway Foods' size, closest first, today.

Company	Price to free cash flow
LWAYLifeway Foods	n/m
MAMAMama's Creations	35.0×
SENEASeneca Foods	4.7×
BRBRBellring Brands	4.9×
FLOFlowers Foods	4.3×
JJSFJ&J Snack Foods	17.0×
MZTIMarzetti	14.4×
FRPTFreshpet	50.5×
Peer median	14.4×

What the price to free cash flow tells you

Market value divided by free cash flow: the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment. Cash is harder to manage than accounting earnings, so many investors trust this more than PE.

Lumpy: a big year of building factories drops cash flow and inflates the ratio without the business getting worse.

More on Lifeway Foods

Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.