Coffee Holding Co. (JVA) Stock Analysis & Winston Score
Coffee Holding Co. is a small American company that roasts, blends, and packages coffee. It sells coffee under its own brand names — including Café Caribe, Don Manuel, and S&W — as well as private-label coffee for grocery stores and other retailers. The company serves both retail consumers and wholesale customers across the packaged foods industry. Coffee Holding makes money by buying green (unroasted) coffee beans, processing them, and selling the finished product to supermarkets, distributors, and foodservice customers, primarily in the United States. It is a small-cap company with a market cap under $100 million, which means it competes against much larger players like Folgers and Dunkin' brands. Its thin operating margin of around 3% reflects how competitive and commodity-driven the coffee business is — when raw coffee bean prices rise, profits can shrink quickly. The main risk the company faces is continued cost pressure from volatile global coffee commodity prices, which it has limited power to control.
Winston Score: 49/100 — Average
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
- Quality: Weak (5/30)
- Growth: Mixed (9/20)
- Cash Flow: Strong (7/10)
- Stability: Exceptional (9/10)
- Valuation: Good (5/10)
- Ownership: Good (10/15)



