Stocks · Consumer Defensive · Grocery Stores
Weis Markets, Inc. WMK
$74.04 +1.96% Close, Oct 2, 2026 · NYSE · Market cap $1.83B
Strong trendLow risk
Next earnings report: Nov 3, 2026
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Three things to know
- The diluted share count fell 6.1% in a year, mainly through buybacks.
- Revenue over the last four quarters was $5.07B, up 4.5% from a year earlier.
- Diluted EPS over the last four quarters was $3.90, down 3.0% year over year.
PromtFinance scores
Each score is a percentile within the Consumer Defensive sector (0–100). Under each score: how the stock ranks in its sector on every component. As of Oct 5, 2026.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are growing.
- Revenue growth (TTM, YoY)Top 44%
- EPS growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 46%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRBottom 43%
- Revenue growth accelerationTop 48%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalBottom 32%
- Gross marginBottom 27%
- Operating marginBottom 27%
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Top 30%
- Accruals (lower is better)Top 47%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 21%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldTop 33%
- Free-cash-flow yieldBottom 16%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueTop 22%
- Sales / enterprise valueTop 12%
- P/E vs own 5-year history (lower is better)Bottom 22%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthTop 50%
- 6-month returnTop 30%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Top 35%
- Distance from 52-week highTop 13%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Top 5%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Top 12%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsTop 18%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Top 18%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 21%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 4.0% | 4.5% | ↑ |
| EPS growth (YoY) | 0.0% | -3.0% | ↓ |
| Gross margin | 25.3% | 23.2% | ↓ |
| Operating margin | 2.6% | 2.2% | ↓ |
| FCF margin | -0.3% | 0.5% | ↑ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | 4.5% | 4.0% | ↑ | Top 44% |
| EPS growth (TTM, YoY) | -3.0% | 0.0% | ↓ | Bottom 46% |
| Gross margin | 23.2% | 25.3% | ↓ | Bottom 27% |
| Operating margin | 2.2% | 2.6% | ↓ | Bottom 27% |
| Net margin | 1.9% | 2.2% | ↓ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 0.5% | -0.3% | ↑ | — |
| Return on invested capital | 4.6% | — | Bottom 32% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | 1.8% | — | Bottom 43% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Above 1× means profits are backed by cash.
- 2.32×
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- -6.3%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 0.0%
- Receivables growth vs revenue growthReceivables growing much faster than sales can be a warning.
- +7.8 pp
- Net debt / EBITDABelow 1× is conservative; above 3× is high leverage.
- 0.13×
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- 1.84%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- -7.64%
- Shareholder yield
- -5.80%
- Share count change, 1 year
- -6.1%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- -2.7%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Jun 27, 2026 (filed Aug 6, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- +1.8%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 6 of 8
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2026 | — | -0.1% | -8.0% | -9.3% | — |
| May 6, 2026 | — | +3.0% | -1.0% | +6.2% | +10.8% |
| Mar 12, 2026 | — | +0.8% | +5.7% | +17.0% | +25.3% |
| Nov 4, 2025 | — | +0.2% | -0.1% | +5.2% | +11.6% |
| Aug 6, 2025 | — | +5.4% | +4.6% | +4.2% | -7.2% |
| May 7, 2025 | — | -0.7% | -15.4% | -16.8% | -18.3% |
| Feb 25, 2025 | — | +2.8% | +0.5% | +5.2% | +4.0% |
| Nov 5, 2024 | — | +2.8% | +17.4% | +10.9% | +4.9% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2026 | $0.92 | — | — | $1.28B |
| May 6, 2026 | $1.13 | — | — | $1.26B |
| Mar 12, 2026 | $1.24 | — | — | $1.30B |
| Nov 4, 2025 | $0.74 | — | — | $1.24B |
| Aug 6, 2025 | $1.01 | — | — | $1.22B |
| May 7, 2025 | $0.76 | — | — | $1.20B |
| Feb 25, 2025 | $1.29 | — | — | $1.25B |
| Nov 5, 2024 | $0.96 | — | — | $1.19B |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E (trailing) | 19.0× | 17.7× | 76th | Top 33% |
| EV / EBITDA | 8.8× | — | — | Top 22% |
| EV / Sales | 0.37× | — | — | Top 12% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | 1.38% | — | — | Bottom 16% |
| Earnings yield | 5.27% | — | — | Top 33% |
P/E over the past five years
Range 13.5× – 21.1× since Jun 26, 2021. Each point: price on the filing date divided by trailing-twelve-month EPS known then.
What moved the stock over the past year
- Price return, 1 year
- +2.8%
- Earnings per share growth (TTM)
- -3.0%
- Change in P/E multiple
- +9.8%
Most of the move came from a change in the valuation multiple.
Technical state
Trend checklist
- ✓ Price above 20-day average
- ✓ Price above 50-day average
- ✓ Price above 200-day average
- ✓ 50-day average above 200-day
- ✓ MACD histogram positive
Trend quality
- Days above the 50-day average
- 1
- Days above the 200-day average
- 16
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- -3.4%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- +0.9%
- Distance from 50-day average
- +1.9%
- Distance from 200-day average
- +3.3%
- RSI (14)
- 59.7
- Relative volume
- 0.66×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 23.4%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 11th percentile · Low for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 0.14
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.08
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- -10.4%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -30.7%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2022 | Feb 5, 2024 | -37.1% | 317 days | Not yet recovered |
| Aug 19, 2022 | Sep 30, 2022 | -16.6% | 29 days | 15 days (Oct 21, 2022) |
| Mar 12, 2021 | May 27, 2021 | -16.4% | 53 days | 111 days (Nov 3, 2021) |
| May 4, 2022 | Jun 17, 2022 | -16.0% | 31 days | 43 days (Aug 19, 2022) |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Oct 29, 2020 | -11.2% | 14 days | 59 days (Jan 26, 2021) |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $1.83B
- P/E (TTM)
- 19.0
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- $3.90
- Revenue (TTM)
- $5.07B
- Dividend yield
- 1.84%
- 52-week range
- $59.99 – $83.74
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $4.22B | $4.70B | $4.70B | $4.79B | $4.96B |
| Gross profit | $1.12B | $1.18B | $1.19B | $1.20B | $1.13B |
| Operating income | $146.7M | $157.1M | $137.2M | $131.7M | $102.3M |
| Net income | $108.8M | $125.2M | $103.8M | $109.9M | $93.7M |
| EPS (diluted) | $4.05 | $4.65 | $3.86 | $4.09 | $3.65 |
| Q3 2024 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $1.19B | $1.25B | $1.20B | $1.22B | $1.24B | $1.30B | $1.26B | $1.28B |
| Net income | $25.8M | $34.7M | $20.5M | $26.5M | $18.2M | $28.5M | $27.9M | $22.9M |
| EPS (diluted) | $0.96 | $1.29 | $0.76 | $1.01 | $0.74 | $1.11 | $1.13 | $0.92 |
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $227.7M | $218.0M | $201.6M | $187.5M | $207.2M |
| Capital expenditure | -$152.0M | -$123.0M | -$105.1M | -$161.3M | -$202.4M |
| Free cash flow | $75.7M | $95.0M | $96.5M | $26.1M | $4.8M |
| Dividends paid | -$33.6M | -$35.0M | -$36.6M | -$36.6M | -$35.1M |
| Net share buybacks | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | -$140.0M |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $208.1M
- Total assets
- $2.04B
- Total liabilities
- $658.2M
- Total debt
- $130.4M
- Net debt
- $26.9M
- Shareholders’ equity
- $1.39B
As of Jun 27, 2026 (filed Aug 6, 2026).
Dividends
| Ex-date | Amount | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2026 | $0.34 | Aug 10, 2026 |
| May 11, 2026 | $0.34 | May 26, 2026 |
| Feb 17, 2026 | $0.34 | Mar 3, 2026 |
| Nov 10, 2025 | $0.34 | Nov 24, 2025 |
| Jul 28, 2025 | $0.34 | Aug 11, 2025 |
| May 12, 2025 | $0.34 | May 27, 2025 |
| Feb 18, 2025 | $0.34 | Mar 4, 2025 |
| Nov 12, 2024 | $0.34 | Nov 26, 2024 |
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 2,586,174
- Days to cover
- 16.85
- Change vs previous report
- +6.3%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.
Stock splits
- May 26, 1987
- 3-for-2
- Aug 26, 1985
- 3-for-2
- Feb 28, 1983
- 3-for-2
- Jun 1, 1982
- 3-for-2
- May 7, 1979
- 3-for-2