KHC vs. LW, KDP, ABEV, KMB, GIS, HSY, ADM, CTVA, STZ, and SYY
Should you be buying Kraft Heinz stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kraft Heinz include Lamb Weston (LW), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Ambev (ABEV), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), General Mills (GIS), Hershey (HSY), Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Corteva (CTVA), Constellation Brands (STZ), and Sysco (SYY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Kraft Heinz vs.
Lamb Weston (NYSE:LW) and Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ:KHC) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Kraft Heinz has higher revenue and earnings than Lamb Weston. Kraft Heinz is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lamb Weston, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lamb Weston has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kraft Heinz has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lamb Weston pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Kraft Heinz pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Lamb Weston pays out 34.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kraft Heinz pays out 83.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lamb Weston has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Lamb Weston and Lamb Weston both had 11 articles in the media. Kraft Heinz's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Lamb Weston's score of 0.41 indicating that Kraft Heinz is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
89.9% of Lamb Weston shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.8% of Kraft Heinz shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Lamb Weston shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Kraft Heinz shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lamb Weston presently has a consensus target price of $102.25, indicating a potential downside of 0.31%. Kraft Heinz has a consensus target price of $42.67, indicating a potential upside of 10.34%. Given Kraft Heinz's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kraft Heinz is more favorable than Lamb Weston.
Lamb Weston has a net margin of 10.50% compared to Kraft Heinz's net margin of 8.92%. Lamb Weston's return on equity of 107.83% beat Kraft Heinz's return on equity.
Kraft Heinz received 300 more outperform votes than Lamb Weston when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.38% of users gave Kraft Heinz an outperform vote while only 64.50% of users gave Lamb Weston an outperform vote.
Summary
Lamb Weston and Kraft Heinz tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Kraft Heinz Competitors List
