LWAY vs. MED, VGII, LMNR, CBUS, MAMA, CSV, ALCO, FREE, SENEA, and TDUP
Should you be buying Lifeway Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lifeway Foods include Medifast (MED), Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II (VGII), Limoneira (LMNR), Cibus (CBUS), Mama's Creations (MAMA), Carriage Services (CSV), Alico (ALCO), Whole Earth Brands (FREE), Seneca Foods (SENEA), and ThredUp (TDUP). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Medifast (NYSE:MED) and Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ:LWAY) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.
Medifast has higher revenue and earnings than Lifeway Foods. Medifast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lifeway Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.5% of Medifast shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.4% of Lifeway Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Medifast shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Lifeway Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Medifast has a net margin of 7.55% compared to Medifast's net margin of 7.10%. Lifeway Foods' return on equity of 36.64% beat Medifast's return on equity.
Medifast currently has a consensus price target of $53.50, indicating a potential upside of 100.45%. Lifeway Foods has a consensus price target of $19.50, indicating a potential downside of 19.92%. Given Lifeway Foods' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Medifast is more favorable than Lifeway Foods.
Medifast received 84 more outperform votes than Lifeway Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.19% of users gave Lifeway Foods an outperform vote while only 63.94% of users gave Medifast an outperform vote.
Medifast has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lifeway Foods has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Medifast had 29 more articles in the media than Lifeway Foods. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Medifast and 1 mentions for Lifeway Foods. Medifast's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Lifeway Foods' score of -0.02 indicating that Lifeway Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Medifast beats Lifeway Foods on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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