What does Albertsons Companies do?

Albertsons runs grocery stores across the United States under many well-known names like Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, and ACME. Its stores sell food, household goods, and health and beauty products, and many include pharmacies, coffee shops, and gas stations. Shoppers can also buy through its digital platforms.

What is Albertsons Companies's fair value?

On an owner-earnings DCF, Albertsons Companies's most-likely fair value is about $20, versus a recent price near $12. A margin-of-safety estimate, not a price target. Analysis, not advice.

Consumer Defensive · Grocery Stores · ACI

What Albertsons Companies Does & How It Makes Money (ACI)

Updated October 2026 · reflects Albertsons Companies's latest reported financials

Major U.S. supermarket and pharmacy chain operating Safeway, Albertsons, and more. It earns money mainly by selling groceries, general merchandise, and health products at retail, supplemented by pharmacy prescriptions and vaccines, fuel sales, and digital orders.

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How Albertsons Companies makes money

It earns money mainly by selling groceries, general merchandise, and health products at retail, supplemented by pharmacy prescriptions and vaccines, fuel sales, and digital orders. Its own distribution centers and manufacturing facilities support supply to its stores.

What Albertsons Companies does

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, operating a broad portfolio of regional supermarket banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Carrs, Jewel-Osco, ACME, Shaw's, Star Market, United Supermarkets, Market Street, Haggen, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's. Its stores sell groceries, general merchandise, and health and beauty products, and many also offer pharmacy services, vaccines, fuel, and branded coffee shops. The company supports its store network with its own distribution centers and manufacturing facilities, and it also sells through digital platforms. Founded in 1860 and headquartered in Boise, Idaho, Albertsons operates in the consumer defensive sector, where demand for everyday essentials tends to stay relatively steady.

Products & services

Safeway supermarkets
Albertsons supermarkets
Vons and Jewel-Osco stores
In-store pharmacies and vaccines
Fuel centers
Digital grocery platforms

What is Albertsons Companies worth?

On an owner-earnings DCF, Albertsons Companies's most-likely value is about $20 versus a recent price near $12 (65% below fair value). But TacticScale only calls a stock undervalued when the price sits below its conservative no-growth floor (~$15) with a margin of safety — so the honest verdict here is “Deeply discounted.” Fair value earns its keep only at the extremes, not in the wide middle.

Verdict: Deeply discounted

Owner-earnings fair value · recent price ≈ $12

Fair value (most likely)

$20

Range

$17–$24

No-growth floor

$15

Price

~$12

On the financials alone, $12 is below even the no-growth floor ($15); the market's discount — expectations and sentiment beyond the numbers — is pricing in ≈ -2.3%/yr. A bargain only if that pessimism is overdone.

⚠ High leverage — net debt is 23.4× annual cash flow. Net debt is subtracted from this fair value, but refinancing at higher rates, principal timing, and share dilution aren’t modeled — the equity can be worth far less if cash flow weakens.

Analysis, not advice. Fair value is a margin-of-safety estimate from a deterministic owner-earnings DCF, not a price target or recommendation. See the full breakdown →

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