Vital Farms, Inc. (VITL)

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Vital Farms, 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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Vital Farms, Inc.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $107 million in fiscal 2018 to $759 million in fiscal 2025, up 32.4% a year; it rose in 7 of 7 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 8 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-28, Vital Farms, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 1.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 12 sales (12 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 17 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10, buying about $835 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-28, Vital Farms, Inc. earned about 19 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 55 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 32 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 2.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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Vital Farms, Inc.'s standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $759 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 44% by size; a net margin of 8.7% ranks in the top 13%; revenue growth of 27.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 14% (its annual reports).

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Vital Farms, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Diez-Canseco, Russell (Exec. Chair, President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2020-07-30, 6.3 years (top 32% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6 years (top 35%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 17%; 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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Vital Farms, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $49 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 9.4% of its assets as net cash, top 24% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -6.4% of revenue (bottom 31%); a gross margin of 37.6% (top 15%) (its annual report).

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Vital Farms, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 27.9% a year over the last three filed years against 32.4% over all 8, slowing (bottom 44% of its family); the newest year grew 25.4% (top 9%); capital spending grew 98.2% a year (top 9%) (its annual reports). Vital Farms, Inc. reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Eggs and Egg Related Products at $733 million (97%), Butter and Butter Related Products at $26 million (4%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Vital Farms, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $759 million in fiscal 2025 came in 3.1% below the $783 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 41% of its family); net income of $66 million against a prior three-year average of $27 million (top 15%); a net margin of 8.7% against 4.9% before (top 28%) (its annual reports).