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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Food Products · CIK 0001679273
$55.18
+3.90% · live
Updated
$7.59B market value
From Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.'s FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 24, 2026 · read the filing
Lamb Weston makes food and drink. It took in $6.61B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 4 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by accounting, with profitability, growth and debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.'s FY2026 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2026
Free cash flow
$230.1M → $540.2M
Profit
$357.2M → $290.0M
Earnings per share
$2.56 → $2.11
Capital spending
$638.2M → $402.7M
Measured against FY2025, from the 10-K filed Jul 24, 2026
Improved: +134.8%
$230.1M to $540.2MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
LW rose 3.90% on the latest quote. The average Consumer Staples company tracked here moved +4.05%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is in line with its sector and 4.9 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 6% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 9% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 4 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $290.0M last year.
Barely. Sales were roughly flat, up 2.5%.
Manageable, but notable. Clearing its debt would take about 4.1 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.33 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 72 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 22% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 10 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2026 annual filing
Last year it earned $290.0M and generated $942.9M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202610-K · Jul 24, 2026Filing for FY2026 | FY202510-K · Jul 24, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Jul 23, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Jul 23, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Jul 25, 2023Filing for FY2022 | ChangeFY2026 vs FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $6.61B | $6.45B | $6.47B | $5.35B | $4.10B | +2.5% |
| Cost of revenue | $5.25B | $5.05B | $4.70B | $3.92B | $3.27B | +4.0% |
| Gross profit | $1.36B | $1.40B | $1.77B | $1.43B | $832.0M | −2.8% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 20.6% | 21.7% | 27.3% | 26.8% | 20.3% | −1.1 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $664.6M | $633.5M | $701.4M | $550.0M | $387.6M | +4.9% |
| Operating income | $591.1M | $665.1M | $1.07B | $882.1M | $444.4M | −11.1% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 8.9% | 10.3% | 16.5% | 16.5% | 10.8% | −1.4 pts |
| Income before tax | $418.1M | $500.3M | $955.5M | $1.23B | $272.7M | −16.4% |
| Net income | $290.0M | $357.2M | $725.5M | $1.01B | $200.9M | −18.8% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 4.4% | 5.5% | 11.2% | 18.9% | 4.9% | −1.2 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $2.11 | $2.56 | $5.05 | $6.93 | $1.39 | −17.7% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LWLamb Weston Holdings, Inc. · this page | 7.0/10 | 7/9 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Was granted or awarded shares — 5,458 shares
Holds 12,607 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 5,458 shares
Holds 26,316 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 5,458 shares
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2027
Operating margin −4.5 pts · Operating income -47.5% · Profit -54.7% — against Q1 FY2026
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from LW's 10-K for fiscal year 2026 (period ending 2026-05-31, filed Jul 24, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 7.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Jul 24, 2026 |
| FY2025 | 6.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Jul 23, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 8.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Jul 24, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 8.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Jul 25, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 7.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Jul 27, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 6.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Jul 27, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
7 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
2.63
In the grey zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-2.87
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2026 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: -18.8%
$357.2M to $290.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: -17.7%
$2.56 to $2.11Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Changed: -36.9%
$638.2M to $402.7MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Deteriorated: -11.1%
$665.1M to $591.1MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: −1.1 pts
21.7% to 20.6%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −1.4 pts
10.3% to 8.9%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −1.1 pts
5.5% to 4.4%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: -1.3%
139.3M to 137.5MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q1 FY2027 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Oct 6, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -47.5%
$156.5M to $82.2MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -54.7%
$64.3M to $29.1MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: -46.8%
$274.4M to $146.1MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: -54.1%
$0.46 to $0.21Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +68.7%
$98.6M to $166.3MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -22.2%
$342.4M to $266.5MSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: −4.7 pts
20.6% to 16.0%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −4.5 pts
9.4% to 4.9%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −2.1 pts
3.9% to 1.7%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: -1.4%
139.5M to 137.6MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Changed: +14.3%
$77.6M to $88.7MNotable
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
5 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 4% and 8%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 21 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 21 analysts publishing on this company, 4 say strong buy, 6 say buy and 11 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 5.2% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 36.2x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
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Holds 59,352 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 5,458 shares
Holds 11,054 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 5,458 shares
Holds 11,054 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 5,458 shares
Holds 61,659 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 5,458 shares
Holds 29,738 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 5,458 shares
Holds 15,102 shares after this filing.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Published results
Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2026
Operating margin −1.4 pts · Free cash flow +134.8% · Profit -18.8% — against FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingAnnounced restructuring or exit costs
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Terminated a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Operating margin −8.3 pts · Operating income -49.1% · Profit -63.0% — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingAnnounced restructuring or exit costs
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Operating margin +7.4 pts · Operating income +652.4% · Profit turned positive — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Operating margin −3.4 pts · Profit -49.5% · Free cash flow +6281.4% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingPrimary sources and further research