LEVI

LEVI Strauss

Consumer discretionary · fiscal year ending 2025-11-30

Through the investors’ lenses

3 of 4 cleared8 of 10 criteria

Each of these investors has said in public what they look at before buying. Click a name to see how this company measures up — a tick where it passes one of their tests, a cross where it does not.

Warren Buffett 4/4

Measure	LEVI	Checked against
Owner earnings	$563.00m	positive	✓
Return on equity	25.4%	US median 2.8%	✓
Debt to equity	0.46x	US median 0.57x	✓
Operating margin	10.8%	US median 3.1%	✓

Passes 4 of 4. These are the measures Warren Buffett published, applied to LEVI Strauss’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Benjamin Graham 1/3

Measure	LEVI	Checked against
Current ratio	1.55x	2.00x published	✗
Long-term debt to working capital	0.93x	1.00x published	✓
Positive earnings, ten years running	5 yrs	10 published	✗

Passes 1 of 3. These are the measures Benjamin Graham published, applied to LEVI Strauss’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Joel Greenblatt 1/1

Measure	LEVI	Checked against
Return on capital employed	20.4%	US median 5.1%	✓

Passes 1 of 1. These are the measures Joel Greenblatt published, applied to LEVI Strauss’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Peter Lynch 2/2

Measure	LEVI	Checked against
Debt to equity	0.46x	US median 0.57x	✓
Net margin	9.2%	US median 2.0%	✓

Passes 2 of 2. These are the measures Peter Lynch published, applied to LEVI Strauss’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Basis	Payout	Why
GAAP earnings	37.2%	why The figure most screeners publish.
Operating cash flow	40.2%	why Absorbs working-capital swings that earnings do not.
Free cash flow	69.1%	why After maintaining the business.

Spread between highest and lowest: 31.8 percentage points. Same filings, different denominators.

Coverage rating 14 / 100 — Not covered. ? Peer standing 14/50Direction 0/30Stability 0/20

Against its own history: 69.1% this year vs 29.6% median over the prior 5. A gap this size is usually a one-off — acquisition, settlement, cyclical trough — not a dividend that stopped being funded. The rating reads the latest year; the table shows the trend.

Free cash flow payout, last 6 years

Fiscal year	Payout
2025-11-30	69.1%
2024-12-01	29.6%
2023-11-26	156.3%
2021-11-28	18.3%
2020-11-29	18.8%
2019-11-24	48.1%

Coverage worsened sharply this year, 29.6% to 69.1%, after no clear trend before it. One year is not a trend, but it is worth knowing which direction the last one moved.

27% of the 62 consumer discretionary here pay out more.

The arithmetic

GAAP earnings — dividends declared per share $0.540 ÷ diluted EPS $1.45
Operating cash flow — dividends paid $213m ÷ operating cash flow $530m
Free cash flow — dividends paid $213m ÷ (operating cash flow $530m − capex $221m)

Where the figures came from

10-K filed 2026-01-28 · accession 0000094845-26-000008

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Computed by an open pipeline reading SEC XBRL directly. If any number here looks wrong to you, tell us — that is more useful to us than agreement.

What the free cash flow payout ratio measures, and where every company here sits on it.

Also on: rated not covered · when it files.

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