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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Retail · CIK 0001547459
$32.37
+7.65% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$743.0M market value
From Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Dec 11, 2025 · read the filing
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage runs grocery stores. It took in $1.33B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 3 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is mixed, with profitability, growth and debt needing attention.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Cash
$8.9M → $17.1M
Dividends paid
$31.9M → $11.0M
Operating income
$47.0M → $62.0M
Profit
$33.9M → $46.4M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Dec 11, 2025
Improved: +92.9%
$8.9M to $17.1MCritical
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.
Changed: -65.5%
$31.9M to $11.0MCritical
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
NGVC rose 7.65% on the latest quote. The average Consumer Staples company tracked here moved +4.05%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 3.6 points above its sector and 8.7 points above the market.
No filing from NGVC and no news item about it appeared in the last 3 days.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
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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 11% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 19% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 3 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $46.4M last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 7.2% last year.
Manageable. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.46 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 24 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 20% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 6 years.
GoodFigures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $46.4M and generated $55.3M 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 | FY202510-K · Dec 11, 2025Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Dec 12, 2024Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Dec 7, 2023Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Dec 7, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Dec 9, 2021Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $1.33B | $1.24B | $1.14B | $1.09B | $1.06B | +7.2% |
| Gross profit | $397.9M | $364.8M | $326.9M | $304.9M | $292.2M | +9.1% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 29.9% | 29.4% | 28.7% | 28.0% | 27.7% | +0.5 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $44.4M | $38.7M | $36.0M | $31.6M | $28.4M | +14.6% |
| Operating income | $62.0M | $47.0M | $31.7M | $30.2M | $28.3M | +32.0% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 4.7% | 3.8% | 2.8% | 2.8% | 2.7% | +0.9 pts |
| Interest expense | $3.1M | $4.2M | $3.3M | $2.4M | $2.3M | −26.7% |
| Income before tax | $58.9M | $42.8M | $28.4M | $27.8M | $26.1M | +37.7% |
| Net income | $46.4M | $33.9M | $23.2M | $21.4M | $20.6M | +36.9% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 3.5% | 2.7% | 2.0% | 2.0% | 1.9% | +0.8 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $2.02 | $1.48 | $1.02 | $0.9416 | $0.9098 | +36.5% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Nothing recent
No insider trades, pending-sale notices or 5% stake filings from NGVC in the last few months. That is the ordinary case, not a gap.
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.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingPublished results
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
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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 NGVC's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-09-30, filed Dec 11, 2025), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. 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. 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 6.0 | 8/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 11, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Dec 12, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Dec 7, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 9/9 | 10-K, filed Dec 8, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 4.7 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Dec 9, 2021 |
| FY2020 | 6.0 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Dec 10, 2020 |
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
8 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
1.93
In the grey zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 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.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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 FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +32.0%
$47.0M to $62.0MSignificant
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.
Improved: +36.9%
$33.9M to $46.4MSignificant
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: -33.5%
$36.2M to $24.1MSignificant
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.
Improved: +36.5%
$1.48 to $2.02Significant
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: -16.9%
$37.5M to $31.2MSignificant
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.
Improved: +7.2%
$1.24B to $1.33BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +9.1%
$364.8M to $397.9MNotable
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.
Q3 FY2026 against Q3 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +32.5%
$13.2M to $17.5MSignificant
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.
Q3 FY2026 against Q2 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -17.2%
$18.1M to $15.0MSignificant
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: -17.6%
$13.4M to $11.1MSignificant
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: -17.6%
$0.58 to $0.48Significant
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.
Deteriorated: -15.7%
$20.7M to $17.5MSignificant
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: −1.1 pts
30.4% to 29.3%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.
4 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.
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 9% and 13%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 10 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 10 analysts publishing on this company, 4 say strong buy, 5 say buy and 1 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.
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Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 4.7% 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.
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The trailing P/E is 15.7x — investors pay $15.7 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Quarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Cash +32.5% — against Q3 FY2025
Published results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Free cash flow turned positive · Cash +267.5% · Dividends paid +25.7% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +7.2% · Cash +92.9% · Dividends paid -65.5% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +6.3% · Operating income +21.3% · Profit +26.0% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Revenue +9.0% · Operating margin +1.6 pts · Operating income +55.9% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingAmended its charter or changed its financial year · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2025
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingPrimary sources and further research