LANC vs. MKC, HRL, PPC, SJM, CAG, CPB, SFD, POST, CALM, and FLO
Should you be buying Lancaster Colony stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lancaster Colony include McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Hormel Foods (HRL), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Conagra Brands (CAG), Campbell Soup (CPB), Smithfield Foods (SFD), Post (POST), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), and Flowers Foods (FLO). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Lancaster Colony vs.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated (NYSE:MKC) and Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated presently has a consensus price target of $83.14, suggesting a potential upside of 8.43%. Lancaster Colony has a consensus price target of $211.33, suggesting a potential upside of 29.83%. Given Lancaster Colony's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lancaster Colony is more favorable than McCormick & Company, Incorporated.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Lancaster Colony pays an annual dividend of $3.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. McCormick & Company, Incorporated pays out 61.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lancaster Colony pays out 66.8% 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. McCormick & Company, Incorporated has increased its dividend for 38 consecutive years and Lancaster Colony has increased its dividend for 62 consecutive years. McCormick & Company, Incorporated is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lancaster Colony has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
79.7% of McCormick & Company, Incorporated shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.4% of Lancaster Colony shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.8% of McCormick & Company, Incorporated shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.5% of Lancaster Colony shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated received 72 more outperform votes than Lancaster Colony when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.40% of users gave Lancaster Colony an outperform vote while only 57.68% of users gave McCormick & Company, Incorporated an outperform vote.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated has a net margin of 11.73% compared to Lancaster Colony's net margin of 8.26%. Lancaster Colony's return on equity of 19.51% beat McCormick & Company, Incorporated's return on equity.
In the previous week, Lancaster Colony had 9 more articles in the media than McCormick & Company, Incorporated. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Lancaster Colony and 11 mentions for McCormick & Company, Incorporated. McCormick & Company, Incorporated's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Lancaster Colony's score of 1.24 indicating that McCormick & Company, Incorporated is being referred to more favorably in the media.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated has higher revenue and earnings than Lancaster Colony. McCormick & Company, Incorporated 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
McCormick & Company, Incorporated beats Lancaster Colony on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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