Company Analysis

Weis Markets, Inc. (WMK)

NYSE: WMK · Retail-Grocery Stores · Sunbury, PA · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade5.6
◀ Past 5.0● Present 6.6▶ Future 4.6
1 est.

The grade of Weis Markets, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.6/10
◀ Past5.025% of the headline
● Present6.645% of the headline
▶ Future4.630% 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?

5.0/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
2.9/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

2 warning events since 2017; the latest 2026-02-25.

weight 45% of this tense · 29th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Weis Markets, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, the latest 2026-02-20); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2026-02-25) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
6.3/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

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

weight 33% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Weis Markets, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.1 billion in fiscal 2016 to $5.0 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.2% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; 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 41% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 32% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 27% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 32% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
7.4/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.5% a year. 42% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 74th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-27, Weis Markets, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 42% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $33 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 28% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 25% 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?

6.6/1045% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
6.6/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 7%: 7¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 33%: owes 33¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 66th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-27, Weis Markets, Inc. earned about 7 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 61 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 33 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 4.5% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 5% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 41% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 45% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 28% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
4.9/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 49% of 11 in its family; net margin 1.9%.

weight 33% of this tense · 49th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Weis Markets, Inc.'s standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $5.0 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 45% by size; a net margin of 1.9% ranks in the top 32%; revenue growth of 1.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 23% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$4.96Btop 45% of its family
  • net margin1.9%top 32% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth1.7%bottom 23% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
9.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 9.2/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 92nd 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 chief executive's years under the title, which ranks in the top 8% of 11 in its family; fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title.
What the record cannot read
Fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title.
How it was reasoned
one part: the chief executive's years on the record, 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: Weis Markets, Inc.'s leadership is put at 9.2 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, the chief executive's years under the title, which ranks in the top 8% of 11 in its family; fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.6/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.9/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 39% of 11 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 39th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Weis Markets, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $117 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 5.8% of its assets as net cash, top 23% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 0.1% of revenue (bottom 5%); a gross margin of 25% (bottom 35%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets5.8%top 23% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue0.1%bottom 5% of its family
  • gross margin25.0%bottom 35% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
3.8/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 38% of 11 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 38th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Weis Markets, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 1.7% a year over the last three filed years against 5.2% over all 10, slowing (bottom 14% of its family); the newest year grew 3.5% (bottom 32%); capital spending grew 18.4% a year (top 32%) (its annual reports). Weis Markets, Inc. reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2025: Grocery at $4.0 billion (81%), Pharmacy at $672 million (14%), Fuel Product at $248 million (5%), and 2 more; 4 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-3.5 points a yearbottom 14% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth3.5%bottom 32% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending18.4%top 32% 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
6.2/10

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

top 38% of 10 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Weis Markets, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $5.0 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 2.6% above the $4.8 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 25% of its family); net income of $94 million against a prior three-year average of $111 million (top 45%); a net margin of 1.9% against 2.3% before (top 45%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace2.6%top 25% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-15%top 45% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-0.4 pointstop 45% 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 WMK · research, not advice