Village Super Market screens as statistically cheap but fails the quality floor, with weak margins, inconsistent earnings, and insider selling offsetting supportive price momentum - a value name whose re-rating depends on margin stabilization rather than growth.
Thesis pillars
- Positive Price Momentum Despite Weak Fundamentals↑Improving
- Quality Score Below Investment Floor↑Improving
- Attractive Relative Valuation→Stable
- +2 more pillars — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Village Super Market, Inc. (VLGEA) Stock Analysis
Inst Constrain edge
Consumer Defensive · Grocery Stores
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $43.95: Quality below floor (3.5 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.1/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality.
Village Super Market operates 34 ShopRite and Fairway supermarkets in New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania plus three Gourmet Garage specialty markets in New York City. It is the second largest member of the Wakefern Food Corporation retailer-owned cooperative.
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $43.95: Quality below floor (3.5 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.1/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Score 5.1/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 6/7 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, earnings proximity 48d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Suitability: aggressive.
About Village Super Market, Inc.
About Village Super Market, Inc.
Village Super Market generated $2,320,690 thousand in sales for fiscal 2025 (ended July 26, 2025), up from $2,236,566 thousand a year earlier, operating 34 ShopRite and Fairway supermarkets — 26 in New Jersey, 6 in New York, and one each in Maryland and Pennsylvania — plus three Gourmet Garage specialty markets in New York City. Village is the second-largest member of Wakefern Food Corporation, the retailer-owned cooperative that owns the ShopRite, Fairway, and Gourmet Garage names and supplies purchasing, distribution, and marketing scale to its members.
Village earns revenue from grocery, meat, produce, dairy, deli, and non-food categories sold under national brands and Wakefern's own-label lines — Wholesome Pantry, Bowl & Basket, and Paperbird — supplemented by pharmacy and general merchandise. Same-store sales grew 2.1% in fiscal 2025, aided by digital sales growth, recently remodeled stores, higher pharmacy sales, and inflation in the meat and dairy departments, while gross margin slipped to 28.57% of sales from 28.70% on unfavorable product mix and higher promotional spending, partly offset by higher patronage dividends and rebates from Wakefern and lower Wakefern warehouse assessment charges. Village operates a centralized commissary supplying deli, bakery, and prepared foods to all stores, and generated $1,524 in sales per average square foot of selling space in fiscal 2025, up from $1,491 the prior year.
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Village's single most consequential dependency is not a customer but its cooperative supplier: Wakefern Food Corporation, which owns the ShopRite, Fairway, and Gourmet Garage names Village operates under, closed its acquisition of Morton Williams Supermarkets on October 1, 2025, despite Village's May 2025 lawsuit arguing the deal violates Wakefern's governing documents by letting Wakefern compete directly with member-owners like Village. A separate trademark and agreement dispute that arose between the parties in August 2025 has already delayed approval of some of Village's planned new stores, and Wakefern has indicated it could take further action if the dispute is not resolved — a live conflict with the entity that supplies Village's core purchasing, distribution, and brand rights.
See also: Consumer Defensive · Grocery Stores
From Village Super Market, Inc.'s most recent 10-K filing, extracted October 11, 2026.
Recent developments
updated 2026-10-13Recent Developments — Village Super Market, Inc.
Latest news
- NEWS Village Super Market Q4 EPS $0.92 Down From $1.05 YoY, Sales $609.568M Up From $599.674M YoY — benzinga Oct 6, 2026 neutral
Generated 2026-10-13T11:47:16Z.
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Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- HIGHGeographicNew Jersey supermarkets10-K Item 1: 'operates a chain of 34 supermarkets in New Jersey (26), New York (6), Maryland (1) and Pennsylvania (1)'
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Rating Breakdown
3 floor-breakers
Growth below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
No near-term catalyst priced in. Thesis progression will come from fundamentals grinding, not event reaction.static
Quality below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $43.95: Quality below floor (3.5 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.1/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Prior stop was $41.46. Score 5.1/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $45.61 (+3.8% upside). Prior stop was $41.46. Stop-loss: $41.46.
Concentration risk — Geographic: New Jersey supermarkets; Quality below floor (3.5 < 4.0); Value-trap signals (2/5): High leverage (D/E 2.0), Material insider selling (4 sells, 0.07% of cap).
Village Super Market, Inc. trades at a P/E of 12.4 (forward N/A). TrendMatrix value score: 8.5/10. Verdict: Sell.
What does Village Super Market, Inc. do?Village Super Market operates 34 ShopRite and Fairway supermarkets in New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania...
Village Super Market operates 34 ShopRite and Fairway supermarkets in New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania plus three Gourmet Garage specialty markets in New York City. It is the second largest member of the Wakefern Food Corporation retailer-owned cooperative.