KHC vs. LW, KMB, STZ, KDP, GIS, EL, CTVA, SYY, HSY, and KVUE
Should you be buying Kraft Heinz stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kraft Heinz include Lamb Weston (LW), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Constellation Brands (STZ), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), General Mills (GIS), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Corteva (CTVA), Sysco (SYY), Hershey (HSY), and Kenvue (KVUE). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ:KHC) and Lamb Weston (NYSE:LW) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Lamb Weston has a net margin of 16.71% compared to Kraft Heinz's net margin of 10.72%. Lamb Weston's return on equity of 50.74% beat Kraft Heinz's return on equity.
Kraft Heinz received 292 more outperform votes than Lamb Weston when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.28% of users gave Kraft Heinz an outperform vote while only 64.35% of users gave Lamb Weston an outperform vote.
78.2% of Kraft Heinz shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Lamb Weston shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Kraft Heinz shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Lamb Weston shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Kraft Heinz has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lamb Weston has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kraft Heinz currently has a consensus price target of $40.57, suggesting a potential upside of 6.32%. Lamb Weston has a consensus price target of $117.40, suggesting a potential upside of 40.01%. 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.
Kraft Heinz pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Lamb Weston pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Kraft Heinz pays out 69.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lamb Weston pays out 19.2% 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.
In the previous week, Kraft Heinz and Kraft Heinz both had 14 articles in the media. Kraft Heinz's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Lamb Weston's score of 0.62 indicating that Kraft Heinz is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Lamb Weston beats Kraft Heinz on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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