LW vs. KHC, LANC, THS, BRFH, PLAG, KDP, KMB, STZ, EL, and HSY
Should you be buying Lamb Weston stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lamb Weston include Kraft Heinz (KHC), Lancaster Colony (LANC), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Barfresh Food Group (BRFH), Planet Green (PLAG), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Constellation Brands (STZ), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), and Hershey (HSY).
Lamb Weston (NYSE:LW) and Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ:KHC) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends and community ranking.
Lamb Weston has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kraft Heinz has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kraft Heinz had 13 more articles in the media than Lamb Weston. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Kraft Heinz and 4 mentions for Lamb Weston. Kraft Heinz's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Lamb Weston's score of 0.61 indicating that Kraft Heinz is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
89.6% of Lamb Weston shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.2% of Kraft Heinz shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Lamb Weston shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Kraft Heinz shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lamb Weston pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Kraft Heinz pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Lamb Weston pays out 19.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kraft Heinz pays out 69.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Lamb Weston has a net margin of 16.71% compared to Kraft Heinz's net margin of 10.62%. Lamb Weston's return on equity of 50.74% beat Kraft Heinz's return on equity.
Kraft Heinz received 293 more outperform votes than Lamb Weston when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.31% of users gave Kraft Heinz an outperform vote while only 64.35% of users gave Lamb Weston an outperform vote.
Lamb Weston currently has a consensus target price of $117.40, suggesting a potential upside of 36.78%. Kraft Heinz has a consensus target price of $40.08, suggesting a potential upside of 16.56%. Given Lamb Weston's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lamb Weston is more favorable than Kraft Heinz.
Kraft Heinz has higher revenue and earnings than Lamb Weston. Lamb Weston is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kraft Heinz, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lamb Weston beats Kraft Heinz on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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