LANC vs. THS, FTFT, LW, FLO, FRPT, BROS, RH, OLLI, NTCOY, and FIZZ
Should you be buying Lancaster Colony stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lancaster Colony include TreeHouse Foods (THS), Future FinTech Group (FTFT), Lamb Weston (LW), Flowers Foods (FLO), Freshpet (FRPT), Dutch Bros (BROS), RH (RH), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), Natura &Co (NTCOY), and National Beverage (FIZZ).
TreeHouse Foods (NYSE:THS) and Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
TreeHouse Foods received 102 more outperform votes than Lancaster Colony when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave TreeHouse Foods an outperform vote while only 63.24% of users gave Lancaster Colony an outperform vote.
99.8% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.4% of Lancaster Colony shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.6% of Lancaster Colony shares are held 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.
Lancaster Colony has a net margin of 6.92% compared to Lancaster Colony's net margin of 1.51%. TreeHouse Foods' return on equity of 17.37% beat Lancaster Colony's return on equity.
TreeHouse Foods presently has a consensus target price of $46.67, indicating a potential upside of 25.25%. Lancaster Colony has a consensus target price of $198.75, indicating a potential upside of 3.79%. Given Lancaster Colony's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe TreeHouse Foods is more favorable than Lancaster Colony.
In the previous week, Lancaster Colony had 16 more articles in the media than TreeHouse Foods. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Lancaster Colony and 3 mentions for TreeHouse Foods. Lancaster Colony's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat TreeHouse Foods' score of 0.52 indicating that TreeHouse Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TreeHouse Foods has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lancaster Colony has a beta of 0.39, suggesting that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lancaster Colony has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TreeHouse Foods. TreeHouse Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lancaster Colony, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lancaster Colony beats TreeHouse Foods on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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