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Quarterly report 2026-Q1
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MGP Ingredients Financial Ratios 2025-2011 | MGPI

Brief overview of MGP Ingredients's multiples and efficiency

The review covers five available annual periods spanning 2020 to 2024.

Market valuation is represented by P/E 20.58x (median 19.63x), EV/EBITDA 14.55x (median 14.86x), P/S 0.8x (median 2.07x). The combined multiple level is about 61.3% below the company's historical norm, suggesting more cautious expectations.

The inverse P/E implies an earnings yield of 4.9%. This is not a dividend yield, but current earnings relative to market price.

Current measures of operating quality are ROE -15%, ROA -8.7%, ROCE -13.2%. Negative returns point to losses or poor capital efficiency. Valuation multiples are less informative in this setting.

PEG is 0.15x. Price is low relative to embedded growth, though the ratio depends heavily on forecast quality.

The cash conversion cycle increased 16.9 days to 24.6 days, weakening working-capital efficiency.

Conclusion

MGP Ingredients's discount may reflect genuine profitability issues rather than market inefficiency alone.

Annual Financial Ratios MGP Ingredients

2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

P/E

-4.0 20.6 16.1 21.2 19.3 19.6 14.8 32.1 32.0 22.4 14.6 11.6 -19.2 39.6 -100.3

P/S

0.8 1.0 2.1 3.0 2.8 2.0 1.6 3.2 3.9 2.2 1.2 0.9 0.3 0.2 0.5

EPS

-5.0 1.6 4.8 4.9 4.4 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.4 1.8 1.5 1.3 -0.3 0.1 -0.1

EV (Enterprise Value)

930 M 1.26 B 2.26 B 2.69 B 2.14 B 874 M 663 M 1.27 B 1.41 B 775 M 461 M 325 M 161 M 141 M 190 M

EBITDA per Share

-3.3 4.38 7.74 7.75 7.02 3.97 3.46 3.65 3.24 3.2 2.64 1.19 0.399 0.627 0.582

EV/EBITDA

14.5 14.9 10.4 19.9 25.1 13.7 9.2 13.5 16.8 9.1 14.1

PEG

0.15 1.76 0.83 0.97 0.96 2.2 3.22 -2.9 0.94 0.97 1.21 0.02 0.05 -0.46 0.88

P/B

0.6 0.9 2.0 3.1 2.7 3.0 2.5 5.9 7.9 4.8 3.3 2.6 1.2 0.7 1.8

P/CF

3.5 7.0 20.7 26.2 20.0 14.9 192.2 491.7 107.9 387.5 -32.3 31.0 8.5 -4.5 -13.7

ROE %

-15.01 4.16 12.66 14.68 14.17 15.37 16.79 18.51 24.79 21.32 22.55 22.68 -6.04 1.87 -1.75

ROA %

-8.72 2.47 7.72 9.45 8.77 11.01 12.03 13.42 17.40 13.84 13.48 14.74 -3.26 1.00 -0.98

ROCE %

-13.17 8.92 17.50 19.98 19.61 20.66 16.68 20.86 21.59 22.29 20.97 6.41 -4.44 -0.71 0.91

Current Ratio

2.4 2.5 2.6 2.8 2.6 3.5 4.7 4.1 3.2 3.0 2.4 2.7 2.1 2.6 1.6

DSO

90.0 75.9 55.3 47.1 43.5 45.2 42.2 38.3 38.2 33.0 34.2 38.5 31.9 38.8 41.8

DIO

- - - - - - 174.6 135.7 125.3 113.8 79.6 44.1 42.2 43.1 24.0

DPO

65.5 61.2 48.1 41.4 35.8 36.8 37.6 31.7 40.4 29.3 28.4 20.6 27.9 22.3 39.3

Operating Cycle

90.0 75.9 55.3 47.1 43.5 45.2 216.8 174.1 163.4 146.8 113.8 82.6 74.1 81.9 65.8

Cash Conversion Cycle

24.6 14.7 7.3 5.6 7.7 8.4 179.2 142.4 123.0 117.4 85.4 62.0 46.2 59.7 26.5

All numbers in USD currency

Quarterly Financial Ratios MGP Ingredients

2026-Q1 2025-Q4 2025-Q2 2025-Q1 2024-Q4 2024-Q3 2024-Q2 2024-Q1 2023-Q4 2023-Q3 2023-Q2 2023-Q1 2022-Q4 2022-Q3 2022-Q2 2022-Q1 2021-Q4 2021-Q3 2021-Q2 2021-Q1 2020-Q4 2020-Q3 2020-Q2 2020-Q1 2019-Q4 2019-Q3 2019-Q2 2019-Q1 2018-Q4 2018-Q3 2018-Q2 2018-Q1 2017-Q4 2017-Q3 2017-Q2 2017-Q1 2016-Q4 2016-Q3 2016-Q2 2016-Q1 2015-Q4 2015-Q3 2015-Q2 2015-Q1 2014-Q4 2014-Q3 2014-Q2 2014-Q1 2013-Q4 2013-Q3 2013-Q2 2013-Q1 2012-Q4 2012-Q3 2012-Q2 2012-Q1 2011-Q4 2011-Q3 2011-Q2 2011-Q1

EPS

-6.3 - 0.67 -0.14 - 1.07 1.43 0.92 - 0.59 1.44 1.4 - 1.07 1.15 1.69 1.44 1.08 0.91 0.9 0.69 0.61 0.5 0.57 0.76 0.48 0.46 0.57 0.69 0.52 0.44 0.52 0.74 0.82 0.37 0.5 0.48 0.55 0.37 0.41 0.38 0.38 0.44 0.28 0.42 0.34 0.28 0.26 -0.02 -0.37 0.02 0.08 0.01 0.02 -0.05 0.1 - -0.33 -0.61 0.04

EBITDA per Share

-7.8 - 1.22 0.24 - 1.73 2.2 1.54 - 1.16 2.24 2.12 - 1.78 1.85 2.53 2.06 1.73 1.5 1.41 0.92 1 0.86 0.99 0.95 0.85 0.8 0.67 0.99 0.87 0.83 0.79 0.63 0.8 0.8 0.85 0.64 0.85 0.71 0.84 0.6 0.55 0.72 0.57 0.46 0.39 0.36 0.28 -0.06 -0.17 0.21 0.25 0.05 0.22 0.14 0.04 - -0.01 -0.33 0.18

ROE %

-20.13 3.96 6.58 8.46 8.59 10.21 9.21 9.59 9.60 12.89 14.56 14.22 12.43 17.34 17.93 17.67 17.71 17.23 17.30 17.16 15.37 16.54 16.14 16.33 16.79 17.06 17.97 18.28 18.51 20.13 24.04 24.08 24.79 22.96 21.10 21.63 21.32 21.23 20.54 23.01 22.55 24.22 24.35 22.46 22.68 15.00 1.28 -3.27 -6.04 -5.39 2.84 1.52 1.87 -4.86 -11.87 -23.04 -17.84 -6.52 -12.15 0.83

ROA %

-11.21 2.48 4.14 5.34 5.38 6.35 5.66 5.72 5.89 8.00 9.13 10.30 9.04 12.08 8.86 10.83 11.41 11.55 12.03 12.37 11.01 11.85 11.56 11.70 12.03 12.27 12.96 13.22 13.42 14.42 17.06 17.00 17.40 15.82 14.17 14.32 13.84 13.50 12.75 14.00 13.48 14.87 15.26 14.38 14.75 9.79 1.74 -1.25 -3.26 -2.91 1.53 0.82 1.00 -2.37 -5.88 -11.43 -8.91 -3.26 -6.06 0.41

ROCE %

-25.06 5.88 9.45 11.89 11.76 14.19 13.05 13.66 13.25 17.93 20.18 19.73 17.07 24.10 24.77 24.41 24.40 23.29 23.14 22.80 20.66 21.77 21.60 21.98 20.45 21.66 22.60 23.42 24.89 22.89 23.13 23.84 25.43 26.43 28.11 28.11 28.69 30.12 27.72 29.66 28.28 27.45 25.45 20.21 15.92 6.79 -3.99 -6.30 -6.37 -3.95 4.34 3.08 -1.09 -5.26 -9.32 -18.27 -11.66 -3.05 -9.59 0.98

Current Ratio

2.3 2.4 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.4 2.9 2.8 2.8 - 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.4 3.7 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0

DSO

86.9 - 70.6 96.1 - 81.8 69.8 74.2 - 59.1 60.3 54.0 - 24.4 23.9 45.5 50.5 44.2 38.1 52.3 51.5 50.5 56.2 45.1 40.2 41.3 43.1 42.3 38.6 42.6 40.1 37.9 35.5 36.3 36.5 31.6 29.3 29.8 29.6 33.7 30420.0 34.8 32.8 35.9 1046.1 1839.2 1279.0 827.6 3349.2 -27897.4 35755.9 -3058.4 -6932.1 -24795.4 -22541.3 33.4 - 33.3 -1105.0 -

DPO

65.3 - 50.5 70.3 - 52.4 44.8 52.1 - 46.0 52.1 46.3 - 20.8 17.7 39.4 36.3 28.4 25.5 35.3 39.9 34.6 38.4 36.0 38.0 37.5 37.9 34.6 29.2 30.7 33.6 36.6 39.9 40.5 41.0 33.7 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Operating Cycle

86.9 - 70.6 96.1 - 81.8 69.8 74.2 - 59.1 60.3 54.0 - 24.4 23.9 45.5 50.5 44.2 38.1 52.3 51.5 50.5 56.2 45.1 40.2 41.3 43.1 42.3 38.6 42.6 40.1 37.9 35.5 36.3 36.5 31.6 29.3 29.8 29.6 33.7 30420.0 34.8 32.8 35.9 1046.1 1839.2 1279.0 827.6 3349.2 -27897.4 35755.9 -3058.4 -6932.1 -24795.4 -22541.3 33.4 - 33.3 -1105.0 -

Cash Conversion Cycle

21.6 - 20.1 25.8 - 29.4 25.0 22.0 - 13.1 8.1 7.7 - 3.6 6.2 6.1 14.2 15.8 12.7 17.0 11.6 15.9 17.7 9.1 2.2 3.9 5.2 7.8 9.4 11.9 6.5 1.3 -4.4 -4.2 -4.4 -2.1 29.3 29.8 29.6 33.7 30420.0 34.8 32.8 35.9 1046.1 1839.2 1279.0 827.6 3349.2 -27897.4 35755.9 -3058.4 -6932.1 -24795.4 -22541.3 33.4 - 33.3 -1105.0 -

All numbers in USD currency

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