Lifeway Foods, Inc.

DB:LWF Stock Report

Market Cap: €306.3m

Lifeway Foods Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

DB:LWF Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
DateValueNameEntityRoleSharesMax Price
17 Jan 25Sell€652,667Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual29,726€22.03
13 Jan 25Sell€654,123Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual30,000€22.04
06 Jan 25Sell€1,365,501Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual60,000€23.21
03 Sep 24Sell€674,882Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual39,584€17.71
16 Aug 24Sell€95,415Eric HansonIndividual5,546€17.20
16 Aug 24Sell€218,762Amy FeldmanIndividual12,948€17.10
24 Jul 24Sell€165,674Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual14,620€11.33
20 May 24Sell€499,529Julie SmolyanskyIndividual30,105€16.98
13 May 24Sell€375,464Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual15,000€25.88
06 May 24Sell€124,273Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual5,000€24.85
26 Apr 24Sell€223,871Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual10,000€22.39
26 Apr 24Sell€431,163Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual20,000€22.39
25 Apr 24Sell€691,776Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual35,588€20.20
17 Apr 24Sell€230,611Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual12,193€19.27
09 Apr 24Sell€283,499Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual15,000€19.89
28 Mar 24Sell€159,145Pol SikarIndividual10,000€15.91
27 Mar 24Sell€353,969Eric HansonIndividual20,000€17.70
27 Mar 24Sell€205,008Julie SmolyanskyIndividual12,559€17.88
27 Mar 24Sell€510,352Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual30,000€17.60
22 Mar 24Sell€318,883Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual24,852€14.62
27 Feb 24Sell€172,267Ludmila SmolyanskyIndividual15,148€11.38

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: LWF insiders have only sold shares in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of LWF?
Owner TypeNumber of SharesOwnership Percentage
State or Government00%
Private Companies500,0003.37%
General Public1,480,5499.99%
Public Companies3,454,75623.3%
Institutions3,484,26923.5%
Individual Insiders5,896,89639.8%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 82.94% of the company
OwnershipNameSharesCurrent ValueChange %Portfolio %
23.3%
Danone S.A.
3,454,756€71.4m0%no data
17.6%
Edward Smolyansky
2,604,975€53.9m0%no data
14.5%
Julie Smolyansky
2,143,271€44.3m0.31%no data
6.7%
Ludmila Smolyansky
993,166€20.5m-8.51%no data
3.37%
Smolyansky Family Holdings, Llc
500,000€10.3m0%no data
2.9%
Renaissance Technologies LLC
430,182€8.9m-5.39%0.01%
2.04%
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP
302,566€6.3m-3.12%no data
2.01%
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
297,106€6.1m2.9%no data
1.78%
BlackRock, Inc.
263,091€5.4m4.87%no data
1.13%
Marshall Wace LLP
167,925€3.5m67.6%0.01%
0.84%
Vazirani Asset Management LLC
125,000€2.6m0%14.03%
0.81%
GAMCO Investors, Inc.
119,300€2.5m5.11%0.01%
0.78%
Geode Capital Management, LLC
115,971€2.4m1.77%no data
0.65%
D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.
96,442€2.0m0%no data
0.51%
The Ludmila And Edward Smolyansky Family Foundation, Endowment Arm
75,000€1.6m0%no data
0.49%
Two Sigma Investments, LP
73,153€1.5m-18.1%no data
0.48%
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC
71,487€1.5m0%no data
0.47%
Point72 Asset Management, L.P.
68,922€1.4m0%no data
0.4%
De Lisle Partners Llp
59,782€1.2m30.7%0.22%
0.38%
Acadian Asset Management LLC
56,998€1.2m23.4%no data
0.38%
BNY Asset Management
55,841€1.2m1.58%no data
0.37%
American Century Investment Management Inc
54,256€1.1m16.8%no data
0.37%
Millennium Management LLC
54,217€1.1m92.3%no data
0.36%
State Street Global Advisors, Inc.
53,683€1.1m28.9%no data
0.35%
Northern Trust Global Investments
51,124€1.1m111%no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2025/02/12 00:24
End of Day Share Price 2025/02/12 00:00
Earnings2024/09/30
Annual Earnings2023/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

PackageDataTimeframeExample US Source *
Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

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Analyst Sources

Lifeway Foods, Inc. is covered by 6 analysts. 2 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Eric GottliebD.A. Davidson & Co.
Mitchell PinheiroImperial Capital
Benjamin KlieveLake Street Capital Markets, LLC