Lifetime Brands
LCUT on Nasdaq. Lifetime Brands sells kitchenware, tableware, and home products to retailers, distributors, and consumers. Market value $208m.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
Should I look at this?
Not a fit for our list right now
Why it could be worth it
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For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $9.87 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
You pay 6.1 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.
Each dollar kept in the business earns 6 cents a year. Above 10 is good.
Quality score: 53 of 100. Price score: 100 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$9.16 a share, 216% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $2.90 to $10.17.
Dividend: 1.8% a year
Paid every year for at least 5 years
Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: $21 million in the past 12 months, $3 million in the year to December 2025.
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $863m | $728m | $687m | $683m | $648m |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | 5.9% | 3.3% | 4.7% | 4.0% | -1.5% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | n/a | n/a | 0.65 | 0.62 | 0.67 |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.02bn | 0.02bn | 0.02bn | 0.02bn | 0.02bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive5 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Nothing unusual
- Financial strength (Piotroski)5 of 9
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- Debt0.67× equity
- Revenue growth, five yearsShrinking, 3.4% a year
- Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $142 million last quarter, up 7% on a year ago.
- Profit: $20 million, after a loss of $40 million a year ago.
- It keeps 8 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, after losing 2 cents a year earlier.
- 4% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
- Sales grew on a year ago in 2 of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $184m |
| December 2024 | $215m |
| March 2025 | $140m |
| June 2025 | $132m |
| September 2025 | $172m |
| December 2025 | $204m |
| March 2026 | $144m |
| June 2026 | $142m |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $344,000 |
| December 2024 | $9m |
| March 2025 | -$4m |
| June 2025 | -$40m |
| September 2025 | -$1m |
| December 2025 | $18m |
| March 2026 | -$5m |
| June 2026 | $20m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 12 March 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 5 November 2026
Who owns it
2 long-term investors we follow own it, unchanged from 2 last quarter. 88 funds in all.
- GAMCO InvestorsMario Gabelli
- Value
- $2m
- Share of fund
- <0.1%
| Fund | Value | Share of that fund | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAMCO InvestorsMario Gabelli | $2m | <0.1% | |
| LSV Asset ManagementJosef Lakonishok | $576,000 | <0.1% | Cut |
Largest holders overall
- JB Capital Partners LP$14m
- Mill Road Capital Management$9mCut
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LP$8mCut
- BlackRock$8mAdded
- Vanguard Capital Management$5m
- Pacific Ridge Capital Partners$4m
- Martin$4mCut
- RBF Capital$3mCut
- American Century Companies$3mAdded
- Geode Capital Management$3mAdded
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
3 investors own more than 5%.
- JB CAPITAL PARTNERS LPPassive investorat least 7.2%+1.6 pts(filed with 1 related holder)Since 31 December 2025
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LPPassive investor5.0%Since 31 December 2025
- Mill Road Capital II, L.P.Passive investorat least 4.7%(filed with 2 related holders)Since 16 June 2026
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
JB CAPITAL PARTNERS LP Passive investor | at least 7.2%+1.6 pts (filed with 1 related holder) | 31 December 2025 | |
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP Passive investor | 5.0% | 31 December 2025 | |
Mill Road Capital II, L.P. Passive investor | at least 4.7% (filed with 2 related holders) | 16 June 2026 |
From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.
What insiders did
No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 2 sold $355,203.
- SIEGEL JEFFREYDirectorSold
- Date
- 8 September 2026
- Shares
- 740
- Price
- $9.11
- Value
- $6,741
- SIEGEL JEFFREYDirectorSold
- Date
- 2 September 2026
- Shares
- 193
- Price
- $9.50
- Value
- $1,834
- SIEGEL JEFFREYDirectorSold
- Date
- 31 August 2026
- Shares
- 7,359
- Price
- $9.51
- Value
- $69,984
- NANNINGA CHERRIEDirectorSold
- Date
- 24 August 2026
- Shares
- 14,052
- Price
- $9.44
- Value
- $132,651
- SIEGEL JEFFREYDirectorSold
- Date
- 24 August 2026
- Shares
- 11,560
- Price
- $9.53
- Value
- $110,167
- SIEGEL JEFFREYDirectorSold
- Date
- 20 August 2026
- Shares
- 2,571
- Price
- $9.51
- Value
- $24,450
- NANNINGA CHERRIEDirectorSold
- Date
- 19 August 2026
- Shares
- 948
- Price
- $9.89
- Value
- $9,376
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2026 | SIEGEL JEFFREY Director | Sold | 740 | $9.11 | $6,741 |
| 2 September 2026 | SIEGEL JEFFREY Director | Sold | 193 | $9.50 | $1,834 |
| 31 August 2026 | SIEGEL JEFFREY Director | Sold | 7,359 | $9.51 | $69,984 |
| 24 August 2026 | NANNINGA CHERRIE Director | Sold | 14,052 | $9.44 | $132,651 |
| 24 August 2026 | SIEGEL JEFFREY Director | Sold | 11,560 | $9.53 | $110,167 |
| 20 August 2026 | SIEGEL JEFFREY Director | Sold | 2,571 | $9.51 | $24,450 |
| 19 August 2026 | NANNINGA CHERRIE Director | Sold | 948 | $9.89 | $9,376 |
From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.
Warning signs in its filings
Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.
None of the warning signs we check for were found.
We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.
We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 12 Mar 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 6 Aug 2026 and 4 later 8-Ks.
A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.
What could go wrong
- Sales have shrunk: 3.4% a year.
Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.
The deep dive
Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.
- What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
- Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
- The three things that would make this a mistake
- Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
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