Forensic Analysis · Grocery & Drugstore · as of Nov 8, 2026

Weis Markets Inc (WMK)

A forensic read on Weis Markets Inc built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

C · Mixed — selective

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

6.2

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

6.7%

ROE

3.5%

Revenue growth

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Weis Markets Inc earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 6.2, placing it in the Safe zone. 2 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

5.5%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 5.5% in the latest fiscal year and steady across FY2023–FY2025, inside a 0.7-point range. After-tax operating profit was $94M in FY2023 and $86M in FY2025, with operating income at 2.8% of revenue in FY2023, 2.6% in FY2024 and 2.3% in FY2025. The capital base behind it went from $1.5B in FY2023 to $1.6B in FY2025 (+4%), while the revenue it carried went from $4.7B to $5.0B. Across FY2024–FY2025, $393M went into capital expenditure, purchases of intangible assets and acquisitions against $239M of total depreciation and amortisation. The base is struck net of amortisation, write-downs and the current liabilities that fund it, so it moved by less than that spending net of the wear, and this row does not say which of those absorbed the difference.

3629% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $175M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 3629% of free cash flow, but 85% of operating cash flow. Returns run ahead of free cash flow because the business is also funding heavy growth capex (usually debt-financed); the payout itself is covered by operating cash — sustainable as long as that spending is genuine expansion, not upkeep.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$4.96B

Revenue Growth YoY+3.5%

Revenue CAGR (2yr)+2.5%

Net Margin1.9%

Free Cash Flow$4.8M

Return on Equity6.7%

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Nov 8, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.

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