Company Analysis

Nomad Foods Limited (NOMD)

NYSE: NOMD · Food and Kindred Products · Woking, GB · filing with the SEC since 2015
Grade6.0
◀ Past 7.3● Present 5.7▶ Future 5.2
1 est.

The grade of Nomad Foods Limited

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.0/10
◀ Past7.330% of the headline
● Present5.740% of the headline
▶ Future5.230% 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?

7.3/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.4/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 74th percentile among 21 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Nomad Foods Limited'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
6.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+5.2% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 65th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Nomad Foods Limited's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from EUR 1.9 billion in fiscal 2016 to EUR 3.0 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.2% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 2% from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span5.2%bottom 38% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 28% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 14% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak2.2%top 36% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
8.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 4.6% a year. 56% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 8 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 87th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Nomad Foods Limited's diluted share count shrank about 4.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 56% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 8 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12, buying about $10 million (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 3% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 23% 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?

5.7/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
6.4/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 5%: 5¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 61%: owes 61¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 64th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Nomad Foods Limited earned about 5 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 13 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 61 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 7.2% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 34% of its family
  • return on equitytop 30% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 28% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 9% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
5.1/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 49% of 19 in its family; net margin 4.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 51st percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Nomad Foods Limited's standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of EUR 3.0 billion in fiscal 2025 is not ranked by size, since the family reports in another currency; a net margin of 4.5% ranks in the top 24%; revenue growth of 1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 25% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • net margin4.5%top 24% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth1.0%bottom 25% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
5.4/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.4/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-17 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 14 members with one.
What the record cannot read
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-17 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
family median, 14 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Nomad Foods Limited's leadership is put at 5.4 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-17 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 14 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.2/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.8/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 42% of 18 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 58th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Nomad Foods Limited's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash from operations less capital spending is 8.3% of revenue (top 25%); a gross margin of 27.1% (bottom 44%); research spending of 0.8% of revenue (top 46%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue8.3%top 25% of its family
  • gross margin27.1%bottom 44% of its family
  • research spending against revenue0.8%top 46% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
5.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 47% of 17 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Nomad Foods Limited's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 1% a year over the last three filed years against 5.2% over all 10, slowing (top 50% of its family); the newest year grew -2.2% (bottom 38%); research spending grew 6.5% a year (top 27%); capital spending grew -0.3% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). Nomad Foods Limited 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-4.1 points a yeartop 50% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-2.2%bottom 38% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending6.5%top 27% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-0.3%top 50% 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
4.0/10

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

bottom 40% of 16 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 40th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Nomad Foods Limited's newest year against its own record: revenue of EUR 3.0 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 4.7% below the EUR 3.2 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 41% of its family); net income of EUR 137 million against a prior three-year average of EUR 223 million (bottom 44%); a net margin of 4.5% against 7.4% before (bottom 34%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-4.7%bottom 41% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-39%bottom 44% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-2.9 pointsbottom 34% 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 NOMD · research, not advice