Company Analysis

MGP Ingredients, Inc. (MGPI)

Nasdaq: MGPI · Wholesale-Beer, Wine & Distilled Alcoholic Beverages · Atchison, KS · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade4.2
◀ Past 6.3● Present 3.2▶ Future 4.1

The grade of MGP Ingredients, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.2/10
◀ Past6.325% of the headline
● Present3.245% of the headline
▶ Future4.130% of the headline

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

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.3/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.1/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 71st percentile among 36 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

MGP Ingredients, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
4.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+6% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 49th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

MGP Ingredients, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $318 million in fiscal 2016 to $536 million in fiscal 2025, up 6% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 36% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span6.0%bottom 47% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 49% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 34% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak35.9%bottom 30% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
6.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.1% a year. 27% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 9 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 69th percentile among 25 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, MGP Ingredients, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 27% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 9 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 27% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 34% of its family

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

● Present

What are they doing right now?

3.2/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.4/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -15%: lost 15¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 42%: owes 42¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 54th percentile among 33 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, MGP Ingredients, Inc. lost about 15 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 16 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 42 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.0% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 29% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 27% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 37% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 18% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
2.2/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 22% of 35 in its family; net margin -20.1%.

weight 45% of this tense · 22nd percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

MGP Ingredients, Inc.'s standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $536 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 34% by size; a net margin of -20.1% ranks in the bottom 13%; revenue growth of -11.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 19% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$536Mbottom 34% of its family
  • net margin-20.1%bottom 13% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-11.8%bottom 19% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
1.9/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 18% of 22 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2025.

weight 22% of this tense · 18th percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

MGP Ingredients, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Francis, Julie Maria (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-07-29, 1.3 years (bottom 20% of its family); the 13 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.4 years (bottom 20%); 11 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 13 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 charge11 in three years among 13 peoplebottom 15% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed4.4 yearsbottom 20% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record1.3 yearsbottom 20% 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?

4.1/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
7.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 28% of 35 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 35 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

MGP Ingredients, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $18 million against debt of $246 million leaves -18.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 37% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 14.2% of revenue (top 4%); a gross margin of 37.2% (top 17%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-18.4%bottom 37% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue14.2%top 4% of its family
  • gross margin37.2%top 17% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
3.4/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 34% of 35 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 34th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

MGP Ingredients, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -11.8% a year over the last three filed years against 6% over all 10, slowing (bottom 16% of its family); the newest year grew -23.8% (bottom 13%); research spending grew -28.2% a year (bottom 38%); capital spending grew 0.1% a year (top 30%) (its annual reports). MGP Ingredients, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Branded Spirits at $233 million (43%), Distilling Solutions at $181 million (34%), Ingredient Solutions at $122 million (23%); 0 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-17.8 points a yearbottom 16% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-23.8%bottom 13% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending-28.2%bottom 38% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending0.1%top 30% 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
1.7/10

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

bottom 17% of 32 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 17th percentile among 32 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

MGP Ingredients, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $536 million in fiscal 2025 came in 19.6% below the $667 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 17% of its family); net income of $108 million against a prior three-year average of $84 million (bottom 23%); a net margin of -20.1% against 10.6% before (bottom 11%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-19.6%bottom 17% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-229%bottom 23% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-30.7 pointsbottom 11% 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 MGPI · research, not advice