MEDIFAST INC (MED): Price and Financial Metrics
MED Price/Volume Stats
Current price | $80.87 | 52-week high | $192.44 |
Prev. close | $83.59 | 52-week low | $77.67 |
Day low | $79.56 | Volume | 81,653 |
Day high | $81.70 | Avg. volume | 208,349 |
50-day MA | $91.68 | Dividend yield | 8.32% |
200-day MA | $109.90 | Market Cap | 880.43M |
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MED POWR Grades
- Quality is the dimension where MED ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 99.64% of US stocks.
- MED's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
- MED's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 8.07% of US stocks).
MED Stock Summary
- MEDIFAST INC's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 95.71% of US listed stocks.
- For MED, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by merely 7.56% of US equities we're observing.
- Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for MED comes in at 21.5% -- higher than that of 91.44% of stocks in our set.
- Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to MEDIFAST INC are LEJU, RYI, VRTV, ENG, and SPWH.
- Visit MED's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to medifastinc.com.
MED Valuation Summary
- MED's price/sales ratio is 0.6; this is 25% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
- Over the past 243 months, MED's price/earnings ratio has gone down 27.8.
Below are key valuation metrics over time for MED.
Stock | Date | P/S | P/B | P/E | EV/EBIT |
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MED | 2023-05-19 | 0.6 | 5.7 | 6.9 | 4.8 |
MED | 2023-05-18 | 0.6 | 5.8 | 7.0 | 4.9 |
MED | 2023-05-17 | 0.6 | 5.8 | 6.9 | 4.8 |
MED | 2023-05-16 | 0.6 | 5.7 | 6.9 | 4.8 |
MED | 2023-05-15 | 0.7 | 5.8 | 7.0 | 4.9 |
MED | 2023-05-12 | 0.6 | 5.7 | 6.8 | 4.7 |
MED Growth Metrics
- The year over year price growth rate now stands at -22.43%.
- Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -42.73%.
- The year over year revenue growth rate now stands at 46.12%.

The table below shows MED's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).
Date | Revenue | Operating Cash Flow | Net Income to Common Stock |
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2022-12-31 | 1,598.577 | 194.57 | 143.568 |
2022-09-30 | 1,639.165 | 135.372 | 151.072 |
2022-06-30 | 1,662.162 | 95.776 | 156.899 |
2022-03-31 | 1,603.018 | 72.892 | 164.749 |
2021-12-31 | 1,526.087 | 94.545 | 164.031 |
2021-09-30 | 1,413.165 | 121.833 | 158.002 |
MED's Quality Factors
The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.- MED has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 99.43% of graded US stocks.
- MED's asset turnover comes in at 4.143 -- ranking 1st of 59 Food Products stocks.
- TWNK, TOFB, and KHC are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with MED.
The table below shows MED's key quality metrics over time.
Period | Asset Turnover | Gross Margin | ROIC |
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2021-06-30 | 4.143 | 0.744 | 19.148 |
2021-03-31 | 4.006 | 0.739 | 72.885 |
2020-12-31 | 3.851 | 0.746 | 8.172 |
2020-09-30 | 3.779 | 0.746 | 4.378 |
2020-06-30 | 3.670 | 0.745 | 2.384 |
2020-03-31 | 3.596 | 0.753 | 1.821 |
MED Price Target
For more insight on analysts targets of MED, see our MED price target page. And for a list of of all stocks sorted by upside potential based on analyst target price, see our Top Price Target page.
Average Price Target | $363.33 | Average Broker Recommendation | 1.33 (Strong Buy) |
MEDIFAST INC (MED) Company Bio
Medifast Inc. is a manufacturer and provider of clinically weight-loss and weight-maintenance products and programs. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in Owings Mills, Maryland.
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MED Price Returns
1-mo | -11.10% |
3-mo | -22.82% |
6-mo | -30.40% |
1-year | -53.67% |
3-year | -20.48% |
5-year | -38.59% |
YTD | -28.68% |
2022 | -42.31% |
2021 | 9.36% |
2020 | 86.18% |
2019 | -9.73% |
2018 | 82.11% |
MED Dividends
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