ACI vs. LW, USFD, SJM, COTY, SCI, CPB, ELF, TAP, PPC, and CAG
Should you be buying Albertsons Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Albertsons Companies include Lamb Weston (LW), US Foods (USFD), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Coty (COTY), Service Co. International (SCI), Campbell Soup (CPB), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), and Conagra Brands (CAG). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Albertsons Companies (NYSE:ACI) and Lamb Weston (NYSE:LW) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
71.4% of Albertsons Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Lamb Weston shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Albertsons Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Lamb Weston shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Albertsons Companies currently has a consensus target price of $24.45, indicating a potential upside of 21.22%. Lamb Weston has a consensus target price of $117.40, indicating a potential upside of 39.75%. Given Lamb Weston's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lamb Weston is more favorable than Albertsons Companies.
In the previous week, Albertsons Companies had 24 more articles in the media than Lamb Weston. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Albertsons Companies and 12 mentions for Lamb Weston. Lamb Weston's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Albertsons Companies' score of 0.38 indicating that Lamb Weston is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Albertsons Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Lamb Weston. Albertsons Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lamb Weston, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Albertsons Companies has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lamb Weston has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lamb Weston has a net margin of 16.71% compared to Albertsons Companies' net margin of 1.64%. Albertsons Companies' return on equity of 68.02% beat Lamb Weston's return on equity.
Albertsons Companies pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Lamb Weston pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Albertsons Companies pays out 21.5% 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.
Lamb Weston received 275 more outperform votes than Albertsons Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.35% of users gave Lamb Weston an outperform vote while only 46.83% of users gave Albertsons Companies an outperform vote.
Summary
Lamb Weston beats Albertsons Companies on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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