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Ingles Markets Inc. IMKTA

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$5.3B
▼ 5.4% YoY
$83.6M
▼ 20.8% YoY
$39.6M
▼ 23.4% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Ingles Markets, Incorporated operates a total of 194 supermarkets in North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama. Ingles supermarkets offer nationally advertised food products, including grocery, meat and dairy products, produce, frozen foods and other perishables, and non-food products such as fuel centers, pharmacies, health and beauty care products and general merchandise. The company operates one primary business segment, retail grocery. The company operates 1.65 million square feet of warehouse and distribution facilities, which supply its supermarkets with approximately 58.8% of the goods it sells. The company also owns and operates a milk processing and packaging plant that supplies approximately 65% of the milk products sold by its supermarkets, as well as organic milk, fruit juices and bottled water products. At September 27, 2025, the company had approximately 25,551 associates, of whom 92% were supermarket personnel. Ingles Markets, Incorporated was incorporated in 1965 under the laws of the State of North Carolina.

Written from the business description in INGLES MARKETS INCORPORATED's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 November 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 5.3B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 5.3 · Net income 0.1
2.5B5.0B
2009201220152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
−2.1%
+3.0%
+3.5%
+3.1%
−32.6%
−14.1%
+3.5%
+6.9%
+0.0%
−1.2%
−0.6%
−1.8%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +3.0% a year over the five years to FY2025.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

2 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 2.2% · Net 1.6%
2%4%6%
200920172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 5.3%
10%20%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin23.9%
Operating margin2.2%
Net margin1.6%
EBITDAUSD 240.5M

Each USD of equity produced 5 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 12.3M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 39.6
100M200M-20M-40M
200920172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 12.3 · Net buybacks ·
40M80MDividendsNet buybacks
200920112013201520172019202120232025
Dividends paidUSD 12.3M
Net buybacks·
Share of profit14.7%
Consecutive raises·

USD 12.3M in dividends — 15% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 2.6B
EquityUSD 1.6B
CashUSD 366.2M
Gross debtUSD 514.8M
Net debtUSD 148.5M
Current ratio3.22×

Net debt stands at 9% of equity.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
IMKTA, 17-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B5.35.65.95.75.04.64.24.14.03.83.83.83.73.73.63.43.3
Operating income $B0.10.10.30.40.40.30.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
EBITDA $B0.20.30.40.50.50.40.30.20.20.20.20.20.20.20.20.2◌
Income tax $B0.00.00.10.10.10.10.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.10.10.20.30.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.00.10.10.20.20.20.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.0
EPS, diluted $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout %1512645716132424222814635405055
ROE %5.37.015.524.327.724.113.017.611.012.114.613.04.89.89.37.77.1

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 66 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Two checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2009.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityRetail-Grocery Stores
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inNorth Carolina
Fiscal year endsSeptember 26
Data on record since2009

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