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United Natural Foods Inc. UNFI

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$31.8B
▲ 2.6% YoY
$-118.0M
$239.0M
In brief

What this company does

United Natural Foods distributes grocery and non-food products and provides support services to retailers in the United States and Canada. Its customer base includes over 30,000 customer locations, from large grocers to smaller retailers. It offers approximately 230,000 products under national, regional and private label brands, grouped in categories that include grocery and general merchandise, perishables, frozen foods, wellness and personal care items, and bulk and foodservice products. The business is classified into three reportable segments: Natural, Conventional and Retail. Natural covers the wholesale distribution of natural, organic and specialty grocery and non-food products, together with the natural owned brands and the natural and organic snack food manufacturing business, while Conventional covers the wholesale distribution of conventional grocery and non-food products and the conventional owned brands. The company is a Delaware corporation based in Providence, Rhode Island, and traces its business to the formation of its predecessor in 1976.

Written from the business description in UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 1 October 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 31.8B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 31.8 · Net income -0.1
20B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
+3.2%
+3.7%
+14.5%
+15.3%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +3.7% a year over five years.

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
−0 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -0.1% · Net -0.4%
1.0%2.0%3.0%-0.5%-1.0%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -7.4%
5%10%15%-10%-20%200920112013201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity lost 7 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 239.0
200M-40M-80M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 0.0
25.0M50.0M-8.0M-16.0M2016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Total assetsUSD 7.6B
EquityUSD 1.6B
CashUSD 44.0M
Gross debtUSD 1.9B
Net debtUSD 1.8B
Current ratio1.32×

Net debt stands at 117% of equity.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B31.831.030.328.926.926.622.310.29.38.58.26.86.15.24.53.83.5
Operating income $B−0.00.00.10.40.3−0.2−0.20.20.20.20.20.20.20.20.10.10.1
EBITDA $B0.30.30.40.70.60.10.10.30.30.30.30.30.20.20.20.10.1
Income tax $B−0.0−0.0−0.00.10.0−0.1−0.10.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.0
Net income $B−0.1−0.10.00.20.1−0.3−0.30.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Free cash flow $B0.2−0.10.30.10.30.30.10.10.20.3−0.1−0.1−0.00.00.00.00.1
EPS, diluted $−1.95−1.890.404.072.48−5.10−5.563.202.56···2.181.861.601.571.38
Dividend / sh $·················
Payout %·················
ROE %−7.4−6.61.415.011.2−20.7−17.09.28.18.710.610.810.49.910.211.610.9
Shares out B0.060.060.060.060.060.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.04·

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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 80 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 15 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityWholesale-Groceries, General Line
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsJuly 31
Data on record since2009

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