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Lifeway Foods, Inc.·4

May 18, 8:10 PM ET

Divisadero Street Partners, L.P. 4

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Lifeway Foods (LWAY) 10% Owner Divisadero Street Capital Buys Shares

What Happened

  • Divisadero Street Capital Management, LP (reporting as a 10% owner/manager for Divisadero Street Partners, L.P.) purchased a total of 165,045 Lifeway Foods (LWAY) shares in open-market transactions on May 14–15, 2026. Transactions reported: 95,371 shares at a weighted avg $25.24 ($2,406,830); 1,500 shares at $22.98 ($34,469); 35,000 shares at $26.33 ($921,379); and 33,174 shares at $25.27 ($838,290). Total cash outlay reported is approximately $4.20 million. These were purchases (buying stock), which are typically considered a more informative signal than routine insider sales.

Key Details

  • Transaction dates: May 14–15, 2026. Filing date: May 18, 2026 (appears filed within the normal 2-business-day window).
  • Prices: weighted averages reported; ranges provided in footnotes:
    • Footnote F1: purchases within $25.1592–$25.4584 (weighted avg $25.24)
    • Footnote F3: purchases within $25.1845–$25.3121 (weighted avg $25.27)
    • One small lot at $22.98 and one at $26.33 reported separately.
  • Shares acquired: 165,045 total shares for ~ $4.20M.
  • Shares owned after transaction: Not specified in the data provided on this summary filing.
  • Ownership structure (Footnote F2): the securities are owned directly by Divisadero Street Partners, L.P. (the Fund) and may be indirectly beneficially owned by the Adviser (Divisadero Street Capital Management, LP), Divisadero Street Capital, LLC (Adviser GP), Divisadero Street Partners GP, LLC (Fund GP), and William Zolezzi (manager). The Adviser GP, Fund GP, and William Zolezzi will be reported as Reporting Persons on a subsequent Form 4 once CIKs are received.
  • No 10b5-1 plan, option exercise, gift, or tax-withholding noted; this is coded as P (purchase).

Context

  • This is institutional buying by a reported >10% holder (an investment fund and its adviser/affiliated entities), not a company executive. Institutional purchases can reflect portfolio rebalancing or growing conviction, but the filing itself does not state motivation.
  • Weighted-average prices and ranges mean the purchases occurred in multiple trades; the reporting persons offered to provide a breakdown by individual trade price on request.