LEVI STRAUSS & CO
At today's price, LEVI STRAUSS & CO (LEVI) is priced for +18.0% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Levi Strauss is shifting from a wholesale denim brand to a direct-to-consumer retailer of its own product, with DTC now about 52% of revenue and growing faster than the wholesale half. • The balance sheet is conservative, net debt around a third of a year of operating income with interest covered comfortably, which gives the brand room to invest in stores and absorb tariff costs. • Tariffs are the live pressure: gross margin held near 62% despite tariff headwinds, helped by pricing and lower p
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271 institutional managers reported holding LEVI in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 20% of the company; the top 10 hold 9%. 42 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BNY Mellon, Goldman Sachs, among others. On the short side, 7.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (3.5 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
LEVI has cut its share count 3% over the past five years, spending $390.26M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting), raised 5 years straight; the current rate is $0.54 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $560.50M in dividends and $120.60M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at LEVI over the trailing three years: 2024: 1 buy totaling $11k. 23 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
LEVI's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-07 | -16.0% | -5.9% |
| 2023-07-07 | -7.0% | +7.0% |
| 2023-10-06 | -2.5% | +14.7% |
| 2024-04-04 | +11.9% | +13.7% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
LEVI's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-08 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-06-15 (items 5.02); 2026-04-27 (items 5.07); 2026-04-27 (items 5.03, 9.01); 2026-04-07 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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