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Lifecore Biomedical, Inc. (LFCR)

Healthcare | Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic | Chaska, United States | NasdaqGS
5.20 USD -0.15 (-2.804%) ⇩ (April 21, 2026, 11:16 a.m. EDT)

Short-term: ★★★☆☆ | Long-term: ★☆☆☆☆ | Dividends: ☆☆☆☆☆
Hot Take | April 18, 2026, 10:22 p.m. EDT

Fundamentals are in freefall with negative earnings, a massive debt-to-equity ratio over 400%, and a negative P/B value, classifying this as a deep value trap. The short-term technical recovery is fading (down 24% from 52-week highs) with catastrophic statistical confidence in forecasts, making any bounce a contrarian trap rather than a momentum play.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoARIMA ✓0.340154
MSTL0.397116
AutoETS0.405471
AutoTheta0.410212

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoARIMA

Forecast Reliability
Score 41%
H-stat 38.32
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.055
Excess Kurtosis -1.61
Attribute Value
Sector Healthcare
Debt to Equity Ratio 414.803
Revenue per Share 3.464
Market Cap 194,882,384
Forward P/E -6.27
Beta 0.88
Profit Margins -23.78%
Previous Name Landec Corporation
Website https://www.lifecore.com

As of April 18, 2026, 10:22 p.m. EDT: Speculative positioning is inconsistent and low-volume. For both calls and puts at near-term (June) expirations, the overwhelming Open Interest (OI) concentrates heavily on the 7.5 strike (~39% distance from current price), creating a long gamma 'wall' that suggests neutral speculation but poor directional edge. The lack of OTM volume in the immediate calls (May) and the bearish skew in the June OTM puts slightly favors downside protection, yet the sheer absence of directional volume (only 4 OTM call vols vs 51 OTM put vols in June) indicates a lack of active conviction on either side.


Info Dump

Attribute Value
52 Week Change -0.13430423
Address1 3,515 Lyman Boulevard
All Time High 20.75
All Time Low 1.51
Ask 6.68
Ask Size 2
Audit Risk 10
Average Daily Volume10 Day 357,920
Average Daily Volume3 Month 310,440
Average Volume 310,440
Average Volume10Days 357,920
Beta 0.878
Bid 3.86
Bid Size 2
Board Risk 4
Book Value -0.379
City Chaska
Compensation As Of Epoch Date 1,767,139,200
Compensation Risk 5
Country United States
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Current Price 5.2
Current Ratio 3.491
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Date Short Interest 1,774,915,200
Day High 5.39
Day Low 5.2
Debt To Equity 414.803
Display Name Lifecore Biomedical
Earnings Call Timestamp End 1,773,691,200
Earnings Call Timestamp Start 1,773,691,200
Earnings Timestamp 1,773,664,200
Earnings Timestamp End 1,778,011,200
Earnings Timestamp Start 1,778,011,200
Ebitda 8,242,287
Ebitda Margins 0.06366
Enterprise To Ebitda 45.203
Enterprise To Revenue 2.878
Enterprise Value 372,579,008
Eps Current Year -0.86
Eps Forward -0.83
Eps Trailing Twelve Months -1.27
Esg Populated 0
Exchange NMS
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 5.7448
Fifty Day Average Change -0.5448003
Fifty Day Average Change Percent -0.094833635
Fifty Two Week Change Percent -13.430423
Fifty Two Week High 8.98
Fifty Two Week High Change -3.7799997
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.4209354
Fifty Two Week Low 3.63
Fifty Two Week Low Change 1.5699997
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.4325068
Fifty Two Week Range 3.63 - 8.98
Financial Currency USD
First Trade Date Milliseconds 824,394,600,000
Float Shares 19,835,281
Forward Eps -0.83
Forward P E -6.26506
Full Exchange Name NasdaqGS
Full Time Employees 400
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Governance Epoch Date 1,775,001,600
Gross Margins 0.31367
Gross Profits 40,609,720
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Held Percent Insiders 0.01921
Held Percent Institutions 0.76445
Implied Shares Outstanding 37,477,386
Industry Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic
Industry Disp Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic
Industry Key drug-manufacturers-specialty-generic
Ir Website http://landec.com/investor/stock-information/
Is Earnings Date Estimate 1
Language en-US
Last Fiscal Year End 1,767,139,200
Long Business Summary Lifecore Biomedical, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated contract development and manufacturing organization that serves customers in the United States, Belgium, the Netherlands, and internationally. It provides services in the development, manufacture, aseptic fill, and finish of formulations and highly viscous sterile injectable pharmaceutical drug or medical device products in syringes, vials, and cartridges in various modalities. The company also manufactures and sells pharmaceutical-grade hyaluronic acid in bulk form, as well as for use in formulated and filled syringes and vials for injectable products used in treating various medical conditions and procedures, including ophthalmic and orthopedic applications. In addition, it offers product development services, including analytical method development and validation, formulation development, sterile filtration, process scale-up, pilot studies, stability studies, process validation, and materials production for clinical studies. The company was formerly known as Landec Corporation and changed its name to Lifecore Biomedical, Inc. in November 2022. Lifecore Biomedical, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Chaska, Minnesota.
Long Name Lifecore Biomedical, Inc.
Market us_market
Market Cap 194,882,384
Market State REGULAR
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_30668
Most Recent Quarter 1,767,139,200
Name Change Date 2,026-04-20
Net Income To Common -34,503,432
Next Fiscal Year End 1,798,675,200
Non Diluted Market Cap 200,504,015
Number Of Analyst Opinions 3
Open 5.39
Operating Cashflow 12,565,716
Operating Margins 0.08180001
Overall Risk 8
Payout Ratio 0.0
Peg Ratio 2.66
Phone 952 368 4300
Prev Name Landec Corporation
Previous Close 5.35
Price Eps Current Year -6.046511
Price Hint 2
Price To Book -13.720316
Price To Sales Trailing12 Months 1.5052948
Profit Margins -0.23783001
Quick Ratio 2.176
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type EQUITY
Recommendation Key none
Region US
Regular Market Change -0.1500001
Regular Market Change Percent -2.8037403
Regular Market Day High 5.39
Regular Market Day Low 5.2
Regular Market Day Range 5.2 - 5.39
Regular Market Open 5.39
Regular Market Previous Close 5.35
Regular Market Price 5.2
Regular Market Time 1,776,784,598
Regular Market Volume 101,472
Revenue Per Share 3.464
Sand P52 Week Change 0.34445214
Sector Healthcare
Sector Disp Healthcare
Sector Key healthcare
Share Holder Rights Risk 7
Shares Outstanding 37,477,386
Shares Percent Shares Out 0.0691
Shares Short 2,591,476
Shares Short Previous Month Date 1,772,150,400
Shares Short Prior Month 2,730,649
Short Name Lifecore Biomedical, Inc.
Short Percent Of Float 0.120799996
Short Ratio 5.49
Source Interval 15
State MN
Symbol LFCR
Target High Price 9.0
Target Low Price 5.0
Target Mean Price 6.5
Target Median Price 5.5
Total Cash 17,469,000
Total Cash Per Share 0.466
Total Debt 141,282,000
Total Revenue 129,464,592
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing Eps -1.27
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 7.11975
Two Hundred Day Average Change -1.9197502
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent -0.26963732
Type Disp Equity
Volume 101,472
Website https://www.lifecore.com
Zip 55,318