Ingles Markets, Incorporated (IMKTA)

Nasdaq: IMKTA · Retail-Grocery Stores · Asheville, NC · filing with the SEC since 1994

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Grade2.8

◀ Past 1.9● Present 4.0▶ Future 1.9

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The grade of Ingles Markets, Incorporated

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense

Headline grade

2.8/10

◀ Past1.925% of the headline

● Present4.045% of the headline

▶ Future1.930% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

1.9/1025% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Surviving crises

as filed

1.3/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

3 warning events since 2017; the latest 2024-12-26.

weight 45% of this tense · 13th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Ingles Markets, Incorporated's filings since 2017 show 3 warning events of 3 kinds: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2021-06-21); a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2024-12-26); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2024-11-29) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed

2.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+3.7% a year over 9 filed years; profitable in 9 of 9.

weight 33% of this tense · 24th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Ingles Markets, Incorporated's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $4.0 billion in fiscal 2017 to $5.3 billion in fiscal 2025, up 3.7% a year; it rose in 6 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 9% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

revenue growth over the filed span3.7%bottom 14% of its family
the share of years revenue rosebottom 5% of its family
the share of filed years with a profittop 27% of its family
the deepest fall from a revenue peak9.5%bottom 5% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

SI estimate

2.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

SI estimate 2.5/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 25th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate: Read from one part only, the cash returned against operating cash flow, which ranks in the bottom 25% of 11 in its family; fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income.
What the record cannot read: Fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income.
How it was reasoned: one part: cash returned against operating cash flow, the one part on file, ranked among 11 in its family.
Confidence: 35 of 100
What would change it: A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Ingles Markets, Incorporated's shareholder treatment is put at 2.5 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, the cash returned against operating cash flow, which ranks in the bottom 25% of 11 in its family; fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.0/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed

5.1/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 5%: 5¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 37%: owes 37¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 51st percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-27, Ingles Markets, Incorporated earned about 5 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 50 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 37 cents per dollar of assets (the filed statements).

What it rests on

what it owes per dollar of assetstop 14% of its family
return on equitybottom 32% of its family
gross profit against assetsbottom 35% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed

4.3/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 43% of 11 in its family; net margin 1.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Ingles Markets, Incorporated's standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $5.3 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 35% by size; a net margin of 1.6% ranks in the top 41%; revenue growth of -2.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 5% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

revenue against the family$5.33Btop 35% of its family
net margin1.6%top 41% of its family
three-year revenue growth-2.1%bottom 5% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed

1.1/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 11% of 7 in its family for leadership.

weight 22% of this tense · 11th percentile among 7 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Ingles Markets, Incorporated's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: no one files under a chief executive's title, so that part is not read; the 4 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6 months (bottom 7%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 4 people in charge now (bottom 15%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge4 in three years among 4 peoplebottom 15% of its family
the median years the people in charge have filed6 monthsbottom 7% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

1.9/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed

3.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 33% of 11 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Ingles Markets, Incorporated's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $366 million against debt of $497 million leaves -5.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 41% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 0.7% of revenue (bottom 32%); a gross margin of 23.9% (bottom 25%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

cash less debt against assets-5.1%bottom 41% of its family
cash from operations less capital spending against revenue0.7%bottom 32% of its family
gross margin23.9%bottom 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed

1.1/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 11% of 11 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 11th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Ingles Markets, Incorporated's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -2.1% a year over the last three filed years against 3.7% over all 9, slowing (bottom 5% of its family); the newest year grew -5.4% (bottom 5%); capital spending grew -1.4% a year (bottom 23%) (its annual reports). Ingles Markets, Incorporated tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

three-year growth against the whole span-5.7 points a yearbottom 5% of its family
the newest year's revenue growth-5.4%bottom 5% of its family
three-year growth of capital spending-1.4%bottom 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed

2.2/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 22% of 10 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 22nd percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Ingles Markets, Incorporated's newest year against its own record: revenue of $5.3 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 5.1% below the $5.6 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 5% of its family); net income of $84 million against a prior three-year average of $196 million (bottom 35%); a net margin of 1.6% against 3.4% before (bottom 25%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

revenue against the prior three years' pace-5.1%bottom 5% of its family
net income against the prior three years' average-57%bottom 35% of its family
net margin against its prior average-1.9 pointsbottom 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton IMKTA · research, not advice