Freshpet, Inc.

FRPT Consumer Defensive Packaged Foods

Freshpet, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.1 billion, up 13.0% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+10.0%
EPS
−70.5%
Free cash flow
+19.9%
Total debt
−0.05%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

63.60 1.22 −1.88%
Market cap
$3.1B
P/E
24.3×
Fwd P/E
34.4×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
4.02
Beneish M
−1.93
Dividend safety
n/a

Freshpet, Inc. (FRPT) Free cash flow margin

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Freshpet, Inc.'s free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 5.58%, up 4.5 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (1.12%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −75.6% (fiscal 2021) to 1.19% (fiscal 2018); the current reading is higher than 91% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 2.31% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.51%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 1.12% 4.48
FY2024 −3.36% 17.91
FY2023 −21.3% 24.64
FY2022 −45.9% 29.64
FY2021 −75.6% (39.99)
FY2020 −35.6% (13.47)
FY2019 −22.1% (23.28)
FY2018 1.19% 2.98
FY2017 −1.79% 11.42
FY2016 −13.2% 8.54

Against its own ten years

Low −75.6% High 1.19%
Ten-year median −21.3%
Current reading's percentile 91

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
CENT Central Garden & Pet Company compare 11.2%
CENTA Central Garden & Pet Company compare 11.2%
MZTI The Marzetti Company compare 10.7%
NOMD Nomad Foods Limited compare 8.28%
POST Post Holdings, Inc. compare 6.96%
INGR Ingredion Incorporated compare 6.68%
FRPT Freshpet, Inc. 5.58%
UTZ Utz Brands, Inc. compare 5.24%
PPC Pilgrim's Pride Corporation compare 0.20%
Packaged Foods industry median 2.31%
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.51%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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