Calavo Growers

CVGW

Food Distribution · Consumer Defensive

Price

$26.09

+0.00 (+0.00%)

Market Cap

$466.3M

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count rising — dilution

+1.6% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 17.6M (2021) → 17.9M (2025)

Calavo Growers, Inc. markets and distributes avocados, prepared avocados, and other perishable foods to retail grocery and foodservice customers, club stores, mass merchandisers, food distributors, and wholesale customers worldwide. It operates in three segments: Fresh Products, Calavo Foods, and Renaissance Food Group (RFG). The Fresh products segment distributes avocados and other fresh produce products comprising tomatoes and papayas; and procures avocados grown in California, Mexico, Peru, a

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Quality

Gross Margin

12.4%

Thin — 12.4% gross margin

Operating Margin

-1.2%

Losing money on operations — -1.2%

ROCE

-0.7%

Weak — -0.7% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY

-10.5%

Shrinking sales (-10.5% YoY)

EPS YoY

+86.4%

Earnings growing fast (86.4% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency

6/8 quarters

Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

107%

Turns 107% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

2.4%

Thin free cash flow (2.4%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.02

Conservative — low debt load (0.02)

Interest Cover

17.66x

Comfortably covers interest (17.7x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

23.3x

Growth-priced — P/E 23.3

P/E above the market average. People are paying up for expected growth.

P/E vs Forward

+4.8

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (23.3 → 18.5)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield

3.83%

Moderate income — 3.83% yield

Standard yield zone for stable dividend payers. A meaningful piece of total return.

Dividend Growth

+0.0%

Dividend flat

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