Lifeway Foods Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

NasdaqGM:LWAY Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
05 May 25	SellUS$891,927	Ludmila Smolyansky	Individual	37,482	US$23.87
30 Apr 25	SellUS$487,769	Ludmila Smolyansky	Individual	20,518	US$23.81
17 Apr 25	SellUS$429,316	Ludmila Smolyansky	Individual	17,948	US$23.92
15 Apr 25	SellUS$405,024	Ludmila Smolyansky	Individual	17,052	US$23.88
11 Apr 25	SellUS$585,800	Ludmila Smolyansky	Individual	25,000	US$23.51
18 Mar 25	SellUS$464,600	Edward Smolyansky	Individual	20,000	US$23.23
11 Feb 25	SellUS$213,100	Smolyansky Family Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	10,000	US$21.31
17 Jan 25	SellUS$671,675	Ludmila Smolyansky	Individual	29,726	US$22.67
13 Jan 25	SellUS$667,200	Ludmila Smolyansky	Individual	30,000	US$22.48
06 Jan 25	SellUS$1,418,850	Ludmila Smolyansky	Individual	60,000	US$24.12
03 Sep 24	SellUS$745,067	Ludmila Smolyansky	Individual	39,584	US$19.55
16 Aug 24	SellUS$104,875	Eric Hanson	Individual	5,546	US$18.91
16 Aug 24	SellUS$240,451	Amy Feldman	Individual	12,948	US$18.79
24 Jul 24	SellUS$179,826	Ludmila Smolyansky	Individual	14,620	US$12.30
20 May 24	SellUS$542,554	Julie Smolyansky	Individual	30,105	US$18.44

Insider Trading Volume

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

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of LWAY?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	500,000	3.29%
General Public	1,352,850	8.9%
Public Companies	3,454,756	22.7%
Institutions	3,505,494	23.1%
Individual Insiders	6,390,141	42%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 85.79% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
22.7%	Danone S.A.	3,454,756	US$77.5m	0%	no data
17.8%	Julie Smolyansky	2,709,821	US$60.8m	22.6%	no data
17.5%	Edward Smolyansky	2,659,975	US$59.6m	2.9%	no data
5.58%	Ludmila Smolyansky	847,823	US$19.0m	-12.2%	no data
3.29%	Smolyansky Family Holdings, Llc	500,000	US$11.2m	0%	no data
2.94%	Renaissance Technologies LLC	446,471	US$10.0m	2.31%	0.01%
2.06%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	313,112	US$7.0m	-0.6%	no data
1.89%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	287,696	US$6.5m	-4.91%	no data
1.68%	BlackRock, Inc.	254,858	US$5.7m	-3.13%	no data
1.45%	TIG Advisors, LLC	220,817	US$5.0m	56%	0.47%
1.37%	GAMCO Investors, Inc.	208,206	US$4.7m	52.4%	0.02%
1.28%	Beryl Capital Management LLC	193,888	US$4.3m	33.3%	4.8%
0.77%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	117,008	US$2.6m	1.18%	no data
0.7%	Tudor Investment Corporation	106,000	US$2.4m	203%	0.02%
0.64%	Slotnik Capital, LLC	96,746	US$2.2m	82.5%	1.07%
0.49%	The Ludmila And Edward Smolyansky Family Foundation, Endowment Arm	75,000	US$1.7m	0%	no data
0.48%	TowerView LLC	72,500	US$1.6m	107%	1.13%
0.44%	Marshall Wace LLP	67,638	US$1.5m	-35.9%	no data
0.42%	American Century Investment Management Inc	64,586	US$1.4m	-6.8%	no data
0.4%	Gabelli & Company Investment Advisers, Inc.	60,946	US$1.4m	0%	0.26%
0.39%	De Lisle Partners Llp	59,782	US$1.3m	0%	0.21%
0.38%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	57,537	US$1.3m	-0.99%	no data
0.38%	BNY Asset Management	57,403	US$1.3m	2.8%	no data
0.37%	Northern Trust Global Investments	56,638	US$1.3m	-2.41%	no data
0.35%	CM-CIC Asset Management SA	53,084	US$1.2m	60%	0.01%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/05/18 08:38
End of Day Share Price	2025/05/16 00:00
Earnings	2025/03/31
Annual Earnings	2024/12/31

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Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Lifeway Foods, Inc. is covered by 5 analysts. 1 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Eric Gottlieb	D.A. Davidson & Co.
Mitchell Pinheiro	Imperial Capital
Benjamin Klieve	Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC