LWAY vs. THS, JBSS, SENEA, CVGW, BGS, HAIN, FARM, MDLZ, HSY, and GIS
Should you be buying Lifeway Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lifeway Foods include TreeHouse Foods (THS), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Calavo Growers (CVGW), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Farmer Bros. (FARM), Mondelez International (MDLZ), Hershey (HSY), and General Mills (GIS). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Lifeway Foods vs.
Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ:LWAY) and TreeHouse Foods (NYSE:THS) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.
36.4% of Lifeway Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of TreeHouse Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.9% of Lifeway Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.1% of TreeHouse Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lifeway Foods has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TreeHouse Foods has a beta of 0.3, suggesting that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lifeway Foods currently has a consensus price target of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.11%. TreeHouse Foods has a consensus price target of $27.83, indicating a potential upside of 23.73%. Given TreeHouse Foods' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TreeHouse Foods is more favorable than Lifeway Foods.
In the previous week, TreeHouse Foods had 7 more articles in the media than Lifeway Foods. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for TreeHouse Foods and 6 mentions for Lifeway Foods. TreeHouse Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Lifeway Foods' score of 0.46 indicating that TreeHouse Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lifeway Foods has a net margin of 7.23% compared to TreeHouse Foods' net margin of 0.80%. Lifeway Foods' return on equity of 19.97% beat TreeHouse Foods' return on equity.
TreeHouse Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Lifeway Foods. Lifeway Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TreeHouse Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TreeHouse Foods received 184 more outperform votes than Lifeway Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.87% of users gave Lifeway Foods an outperform vote while only 63.42% of users gave TreeHouse Foods an outperform vote.
Summary
Lifeway Foods and TreeHouse Foods tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LWAY) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
