LWAYLifeway Foods, Inc.

$22.43-17% 1Y

Is it safe?

Mixed

Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet and typical volatility.

2 neutral, 4 without data
Insider conviction-$679KSEC EDGAR · Oct 22, 2026

Insiders were net sellers (-$679K, 90 days to Oct 22, 2026), selling is often routine.

Drawdown risk43% volderived · Oct 23, 2026

Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -92% · now 31% below its 52-week high.

Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.

Can LWAY take a bad year?

The deepest fall in LWAY's price history on file is −92%; it is 31% below its high today.

−92%

Worst drawdown on file · −31% today

Interest cover
48.4×

Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over

Annualised volatility
43%

Annualised volatility · S&P 500 16% · about 3 times the market's own swing

Details›
Cash and short-term investments
$7.1M
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
$18M
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
$16M
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
43%
Worst drawdown on file
−92%
Below its 52-week high
31%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.

How far can it fall?

How much the price moves, how deep and how long its falls have run, and what each unit of risk has paid.