LANC vs. THS, FTFT, LW, BROS, FRPT, FLO, OLLI, RH, 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), Dutch Bros (BROS), Freshpet (FRPT), Flowers Foods (FLO), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), RH (RH), Natura &Co (NTCOY), and National Beverage (FIZZ).
Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) and TreeHouse Foods (NYSE:THS) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
66.4% of Lancaster Colony shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 29.6% of Lancaster Colony shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Lancaster Colony had 6 more articles in the media than TreeHouse Foods. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Lancaster Colony and 2 mentions for TreeHouse Foods. TreeHouse Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Lancaster Colony's score of 0.15 indicating that TreeHouse Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lancaster Colony has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Lancaster Colony currently has a consensus price target of $198.75, indicating a potential upside of 5.73%. TreeHouse Foods has a consensus price target of $46.67, indicating a potential upside of 30.05%. Given TreeHouse Foods' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TreeHouse Foods is more favorable than Lancaster Colony.
Lancaster Colony has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TreeHouse Foods has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lancaster Colony has a net margin of 6.92% compared to TreeHouse Foods' net margin of 1.51%. Lancaster Colony's return on equity of 17.37% beat TreeHouse Foods' return on equity.
TreeHouse Foods received 103 more outperform votes than Lancaster Colony when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave TreeHouse Foods an outperform vote while only 63.28% of users gave Lancaster Colony an outperform vote.
Summary
Lancaster Colony beats TreeHouse Foods on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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