Natural Grocers BY Vitamin Cottage, Inc (NGVC)

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Natural Grocers BY Vitamin Cottage, 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).

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Natural Grocers BY Vitamin Cottage, Inc's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $769 million in fiscal 2017 to $1.3 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7.1% a year; it rose in 8 of 8 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, Natural Grocers BY Vitamin Cottage, Inc's diluted share count grew about 0.6% 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 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, Natural Grocers BY Vitamin Cottage, Inc earned about 22 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 59 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 68 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.7% over the year (the filed statements).

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Natural Grocers BY Vitamin Cottage, Inc's standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.3 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 25% by size; a net margin of 3.5% ranks in the top 14%; revenue growth of 6.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 50% (its annual reports).

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Natural Grocers BY Vitamin Cottage, Inc'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 3 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 13.3 years (top 21%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 3 people in charge now (bottom 5%; 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.

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Natural Grocers BY Vitamin Cottage, Inc's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $17 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 2.6% of its assets as net cash, top 32% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 1.8% of revenue (top 41%); a gross margin of 29.9% (top 35%) (its annual report).

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Natural Grocers BY Vitamin Cottage, Inc's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 6.9% a year over the last three filed years against 7.1% over all 9, slowing (top 32% of its family); the newest year grew 7.2% (top 41%); capital spending grew 3.6% a year (bottom 32%) (its annual reports). Natural Grocers BY Vitamin Cottage, Inc reported 4 product lines in fiscal 2025: Grocery at $952 million (71%), Dietary Supplements at $253 million (19%), Manufactured Product Other at $126 million (9%), and 1 more; 4 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Natural Grocers BY Vitamin Cottage, Inc's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.3 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.4% above the $1.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 35% of its family); net income of $46 million against a prior three-year average of $26 million (top 15%); a net margin of 3.5% against 2.2% before (top 25%) (its annual reports).