National Beverage Corp
National Beverage Corp (FIZZ) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Beverages - Non-Alcoholic, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, United States and has 1,677 employees. The company is worth $3.47B and trades at 18.7x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was $1.18B in fiscal 2026, down 1.7% from the year before. Net income was $183.65M. The share price is within 3% of its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 8.77%. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Renaissance Technologies, at $88.58M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -32.7% over 5Y.
today you would have $780.24▼ -22.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $34.96 | $31.89 | $42.67 | $49.72 | $46.53 | $45.33 | $42.45 | $25.51 | $35.88 | $48.72 | $25.54 | $22.72 | $11.31 | $10.08 | $7.30 | $8.03 | $6.57 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 1.1% a year plus a 8.8% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 18.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 22.6 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 1.1% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 11.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 6.7% a year against a 8.2% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Defensive, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COCOVita Coco Company, Inc. | $59.00 | 32.6x | 10.2x | 0.00% | 31.37% | $3.41B |
| LRNStride, Inc. | $80.68 | 11.1x | 2.0x | 0.00% | 20.90% | $3.35B |
| POSTPost Holdings, Inc. | $82.00 | 14.8x | 1.2x | 0.00% | 8.28% | $3.6B |
| IPARInterparfums Inc | $116.07 |
| 22.6x |
| 17.8x |
| 16.0x |
| 22.6x |
| 32.7x |
| 27.5x |
| 24.4x |
| 30.5x |
| 17.0x |
| 22.5x |
| 42.6x |
| 39.0x |
| 43.3x |
| 24.6x |
| 20.0x |
| 15.4x |
| 18.3x |
| 18.5x |
| P/S | 3.3x | 2.8x | 2.5x | 3.4x | 4.0x | 3.8x | 3.9x | 4.0x | 2.3x | 3.4x | 5.5x | 3.4x | 3.3x | 1.6x | 1.4x | 1.1x | 1.2x | 1.0x |
| P/B | 9.9x | 5.1x | 6.7x | 7.1x | 12.5x | 18.1x | 11.9x | 8.8x | 7.2x | 10.1x | 18.5x | 11.5x | 14.3x | 9.9x | 13.3x | 5.6x | 9.3x | 4.3x |
| EPS | $1.96 | $1.99 | $1.89 | $1.52 | $1.69 | $1.86 | $1.39 | $1.50 | $1.60 | $1.15 | $0.66 | $0.53 | $0.46 | $0.51 | $0.48 | $0.44 | $0.36 |
| Dividend yield | 7.07% | 9.30% | — | 7.62% | — | — | 6.62% | 7.07% | — | 4.04% | 1.54% | 2.94% | — | — | — | 17.48% | — | 27.78% |
| Payout | 165.82% | 165.82% | — | 171.96% | — | — | 161.29% | 215.83% | — | 90.91% | 65.50% | 114.50% | — | — | — | 268.42% | — | 514.08% |
| Profit margin | 12.95% | 15.56% | 15.55% | 14.83% | 12.12% | 13.93% | 16.24% | 12.99% | 13.89% | 15.35% | 12.95% | 8.68% | 7.64% | 6.81% | 7.09% | 7.00% | 6.79% | 5.54% |
| ROE | 41.09% | 28.89% | 42.08% | 31.59% | 38.17% | 66.20% | 48.92% | 28.73% | 42.48% | 45.19% | 43.58% | 29.69% | 33.37% | 41.09% | 66.73% | 36.17% | 50.73% | 23.21% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+114.8% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 21.6x |
| 4.3x |
| 2.76% |
| 19.11% |
| $3.72B |
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