Albertsons
ACI NYSE· Food Retail
Last close · Oct 26, 2026
$13.98
KIRA · Stoqly’s AI analyst, in plain words
- Albertsons had $83.2B of revenue in fiscal 2025, up 3.5% on the year before. Over five years, revenue changed +3.6% a year on average.
- Its operating margin was 0.9%, down 1.0 pts: of every 100 in sales, about 1 is left after running the business.
- Albertsons made $217M of net profit in fiscal 2025.
- Free cash flow was $527M in fiscal 2025, 0.6% of revenue.
- Albertsons returned $1.8B to shareholders in fiscal 2025, 342% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 6.3%.
- Albertsons owes $8.7B more than it holds in cash, about 3.3 years of operating profit.
Market cap
$6.8B
P/E
—
Revenue
$83.2B
Net income
$217M
Free cash flow
$527M
Operating margin
0.9%
Albertsons in 30 seconds · fiscal 2025
Are sales growing?
+3.5%
Only a little. Sales grew 3.5% last year.
Does it make a profit?
0.3%
A little. It keeps 0.3% of every sale as profit.
Does profit turn into cash?
0.6%
Partly. 0.6% of sales ends up as free cash.
Is debt under control?
3.3x
Heavy. Repaying its debt would take 3.3 years of operating profit.
How healthy are the accounts?
5 / 9
Mixed. It passes 5 of 9 health tests.
What Albertsons does
Albertsons is a food and drug retailer. As of February 28, 2026, it ran 2,244 supermarkets in 35 states and the District of Columbia under 22 banners (store names), including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and Shaw's, and had about 280,000 employees. Stores sell groceries, general merchandise, health and beauty items, pharmacy products, vaccines and fuel, in stores and online through delivery and curbside pickup. Albertsons makes money by selling these goods and services to shoppers. It reports one segment, because its geographic divisions have similar economics and sell the same general mix of products. It also sells its own store brands, such as Signature SELECT and O Organics, which had retail sales of $16.9 billion in fiscal 2025. Only 9.9% of those products were made in its own plants; the rest are bought from other makers. It calls competition in its industry intense.
Biggest risks, in its own words
- Intense competition in food and drug retail that could hurt its sales and profits.
- Labor disputes or work stoppages, since a significant majority of its employees are unionized.
- Failing to respond to changing shopper habits, including how people use digital and AI-driven tools.
- Changes in the healthcare industry and the risks of running pharmacies.
- Fiscal year ends
- February 28, 2026
- Latest annual report
- 10-K · Apr 27, 2026
- Legal name
- Albertsons Companies, Inc.
- CIK
- 0001646972
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Results and finances
The last 5 fiscal years. Amounts in USD.
| Fiscal year | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales and profit | |||||
| Revenue | $71.9B | $77.6B | $79.2B | $80.4B | $83.2B |
| Revenue growth | 3.2% | 8.0% | 2.1% | 1.5% | 3.5% |
| Gross margin | 28.8% | 28.0% | 27.8% | 27.7% | 27.2% |
| Operating margin | 3.4% | 3.0% | 2.6% | 1.9% | 0.9% |
| Net income | $1.6B | $1.5B | $1.3B | $959M | $217M |
| Net margin | 2.3% | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1.2% | 0.3% |
| Diluted EPS | $2.70 | $2.27 | $2.23 | $1.64 | $0.40 |
| Cash | |||||
| Cash from operations | $3.5B | $2.9B | $2.7B | $2.7B | $2.4B |
| Capital expenditure | $1.6B | $2.2B | $2.0B | $1.9B | $1.8B |
| Free cash flow | $1.9B | $700M | $628M | $749M | $527M |
| FCF margin | 2.7% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.9% | 0.6% |
| Dividends paid | $207M | $255M | $276M | $295M | $323M |
| Share buybacks | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $82.5M | $1.5B |
| Share count change | −17.8% | 12.4% | 8.8% | 0.5% | −6.3% |
| Debt and strength | |||||
| Cash and short-term investments | $2.9B | $456M | $189M | $294M | $199M |
| Debt incl. finance leases | $8.0B | $8.9B | $8.1B | $7.8B | $8.9B |
| Shareholders' equity | $3.0B | $1.6B | $2.7B | $3.4B | $1.8B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 1.2x | 2.1x | 2.1x | 2.2x | 3.3x |
| Current ratio | 1.0x | 0.7x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 0.9x |
| Interest coverage | 6.1x | 5.7x | 4.6x | 3.7x | 1.6x |
| Returns and quality | |||||
| Return on capital | 23.5% | 19.9% | 16.3% | 12.2% | 5.5% |
| Return on equity | 74.5% | 65.3% | 59.5% | 31.3% | 8.3% |
| Piotroski F-score | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| Altman Z'' | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
Insiders bought, 12 months
$2.5M
3 insiders
Insiders sold, 12 months
$2.3M
3 insiders
Of sales under plans
0%
$0.0M
How to read these numbers
- Revenue:
- Total sales reported in the income statement.
- Operating margin:
- Operating income as a share of revenue.
- Net income:
- Profit after all expenses, interest and tax.
- Free cash flow:
- Cash from operations minus capital spending.
- Net debt / EBITDA:
- Years of EBITDA needed to pay off net debt. Below zero means more cash than debt.
- Return on capital:
- After-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash.
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Charts and comparison
Ten years at a glance, and how it stacks up against similar companies.
Revenue
Net income
Margins, % of revenue
Cash vs debt (incl. leases)
Free cash flow
Dividends and buybacks
Similar companies
Each company’s latest fiscal year. Fiscal years end in different months, so periods don’t line up exactly.
| Company | Market cap | Growth | Op. margin | FCF margin | ROIC | P/E | F-score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albertsons ACI | $6.8B | 3.5% | 0.9% | 0.6% | 5.5% | — | 5 |
| Kroger KR | $40.6B | 0.4% | 1.3% | 2.3% | 7.6% | 37.1x | 4 |
| United Natural Foods UNFI | $3.0B | −2.0% | 0.7% | 1.0% | 5.3% | — | 6 |
| Casey's CASY | $26.1B | 10.2% | — | 4.1% | 13.6% | 33.9x | 7 |
| Sprouts Farmers Market SFM | $6.2B | 14.1% | 7.8% | 5.3% | 46.9% | 12.6x | 7 |
KIRA
At $13.98 a share, the company is worth $6.8B.
Albertsons grew sales faster than 2 of its 4 similar companies.
Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (CIK 0001646972). Data updated October 20, 2026. For information only — not investment advice. Check the original filings before relying on any figure.