TASE:WLFDConsumer Retailing
Willy-Food Investments (TASE:WLFD) Stock Faces Margin Squeeze Despite Steady Revenue
The market has been edging away from Willy-Food Investments for weeks, with the stock down about 12% over the past three months. Even so, the latest earnings present a more nuanced story. Q2 revenue sits at ₪160.532m and basic earnings per share are ₪0.91, numbers that keep the food distributor firmly profitable but under closer scrutiny.
The real flashpoint is margins. Trailing net profit margin of 7.7% now trails last year’s 10.2%, even as the stock trades on a P/E of 16.1x compared with a...