BRBR vs. LW, FRPT, BRFS, NOMD, UTZ, KLG, VITL, BHIL, OTLY, and BYND
Should you be buying BellRing Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BellRing Brands include Lamb Weston (LW), Freshpet (FRPT), BRF (BRFS), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Utz Brands (UTZ), WK Kellogg (KLG), Vital Farms (VITL), Benson Hill (BHIL), Oatly Group (OTLY), and Beyond Meat (BYND). These companies are all part of the "food products" industry.
BellRing Brands (NYSE:BRBR) and Lamb Weston (NYSE:LW) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
95.0% of BellRing Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Lamb Weston shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of BellRing Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Lamb Weston shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BellRing Brands currently has a consensus price target of $62.64, indicating a potential upside of 11.07%. Lamb Weston has a consensus price target of $87.70, indicating a potential upside of 39.16%. Given Lamb Weston's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lamb Weston is more favorable than BellRing Brands.
BellRing Brands has a net margin of 11.55% compared to Lamb Weston's net margin of 11.22%. Lamb Weston's return on equity of 44.06% beat BellRing Brands' return on equity.
In the previous week, Lamb Weston had 5 more articles in the media than BellRing Brands. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Lamb Weston and 6 mentions for BellRing Brands. BellRing Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Lamb Weston's score of 0.73 indicating that BellRing Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lamb Weston has higher revenue and earnings than BellRing Brands. Lamb Weston is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BellRing Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lamb Weston received 220 more outperform votes than BellRing Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.80% of users gave BellRing Brands an outperform vote while only 64.39% of users gave Lamb Weston an outperform vote.
BellRing Brands has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lamb Weston has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BellRing Brands beats Lamb Weston on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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