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Our Company: Improving the Lives of People, Animals and the Planet Through Food Vital Farms aspiration is to become America s most trusted food company. Every day, we aim to raise the standards in the food industry and disrupt industrial, factory food norms.
$13.87
+$0.31 (+2.32%)
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11.64% operating margin is respectable but not wide. ROIC at 18.30%. Suggests the business covers its cost of capital, but doesn't point to a wide moat.
Revenue grew 25.3%, still solid. Free cash flow declined 233% despite revenue growth, conversion is weakening.
Free cash flow declined 233% versus the prior year, cash generation momentum has weakened. Negative free cash flow of -$48M. The business is consuming cash, not generating it.
13.3x earnings. The multiple is below average. Either the market is pricing in deterioration you should investigate, or there's genuine value here.
Based on TTM earnings · Diluted shares
Profitability & Returns
Revenue (TTM)
$784M
▲ +25.3% YoY
Net Income (TTM)
$48M
▲ +24.2% YoY
Op. Margin
8.19%
▲ +1.2pp YoY
ROIC
11.98%
▼ -1.3pp YoY
Cash Flow & Balance Sheet
FCF (TTM)
-$90M
▼ -233.3% YoY
Op. Cash Flow (TTM)
$10M
▼ -48.0% YoY
Net Debt
$18M
Cash & Equiv.
$37M
5Y CAGR: +28.8%
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At a P/E of 13.3, Vital Farms (VITL)'s valuation is best read against its own history, its peers, and the growth its price implies. A high multiple is not the same as overvalued: fast-growing, high-quality businesses can deserve a premium. See the general approach in how to tell if a stock is overvalued.
On quality, Vital Farms scores 48/100 on Intrinsiqq's quality scorecard (a mixed business on these measures), weighing growth, margins, returns on capital, share count, and balance-sheet strength. All figures are computed from SEC filings; read the full . This is analysis, not investment advice.
Vital Farms scores 48 out of 100 on Intrinsiqq's quality score, a weighted blend of 7 metrics each scored 0 to 100, which makes it a mixed business on these measures. Recent fundamentals include a 8.2% operating margin and a 12.0% return on invested capital. The score weighs revenue and free-cash-flow growth, operating margins, return on invested capital, share-count change, and balance-sheet strength, all computed from SEC filings, not opinion. Because valuation only means something relative to quality, the full metric-by-metric breakdown is on the quality scorecard.
That depends on valuation and quality together, not either alone. you should weigh VITL's valuation and scores 48/100 on quality (mixed). A cheap price is only a bargain if the business is durable, and a premium can be justified by genuine quality, so the two questions, "is it cheap?" and "is it good?", only make sense side by side. Read the valuation against the quality scorecard, run the DCF on your own assumptions, and decide for yourself. This is analysis from SEC filings, not investment advice.