Conagra Brands (CAG) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Conagra Brands, Inc. is a packaged food company that develops, manufactures and markets branded and private-label food products primarily in North America. Its portfolio spans frozen meals and sides, snacks, shelf-stable foods, condiments, refrigerated foods and cooking products, serving retail grocery, foodservice and other distribution channels.

Its well-known brands include Birds Eye, Healthy Choice, Banquet, Marie Callender’s, Duncan Hines, Reddi-wip, Slim Jim, Vlasic, Hunt’s and PAM. The company also sells a range of products under additional brand names and private-label arrangements, including frozen entrees, vegetables, desserts, deli items, sauces, dressings, snacks and baking products.

Conagra traces its roots to Nebraska Consolidated Mills, founded in 1919, and adopted the ConAgra name following a 1971 merger with United Foods. The company is headquartered in Chicago and focuses its operations on branded food products distributed through grocery retailers and foodservice providers, with its largest presence in the United States and additional business in Canada and other international markets.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $14.73 to $15.03
• 50-Day Range: $13.36 to $16.65
• 52-Week Range: $12.53 to $20.32
• Volume: 11.26 million shs
• Average Volume: 9.73 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $7.08 billion
• P/E Ratio: N/A
• Dividend Yield: 4.73%
• Price Target: $14.03
• Consensus Rating: Reduce

Conagra Brands Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Conagra Brands scored higher than 45% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 134th out of 174 stocks in the consumer staples sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Reduce

Consensus Rating

Conagra Brands has received a consensus rating of Reduce. The company's average rating score is 1.72, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 1 buy rating, 11 hold ratings, and 6 sell ratings.

Downside Risk

Conagra Brands has a consensus price target of $14.03, representing about 5.1% downside from its current price of $14.79.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Conagra Brands has been the subject of 6 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 8.28%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Conagra Brands are expected to grow by 8.28% in the coming year, from $1.45 to $1.57 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Conagra Brands is 8.59, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 39.01.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Conagra Brands is 8.59, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Consumer Staples sector average P/E ratio of about 14.15.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Conagra Brands has a P/B Ratio of 1.11. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 1.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Bearish

Percentage of Shares Shorted

9.82% of the float of Conagra Brands has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Conagra Brands has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 4.72.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Conagra Brands has recently increased by 15.65%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 3.3 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Strong

Dividend Leadership

Conagra Brands is a leading dividend payer. It pays a dividend yield of 4.79%, putting its dividend yield in the top 25% of dividend-paying stocks.

Dividend Growth

Conagra Brands has been increasing its dividend for 5 years.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on earnings estimates, Conagra Brands will have a dividend payout ratio of 44.59% next year. This indicates that Conagra Brands will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

News and Social Media

• Score: 1.5 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.40

News Sentiment

Conagra Brands has a news sentiment score of 0.40. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.73 average news sentiment score of Consumer Staples companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 9 news articles for Conagra Brands this week, compared to 10 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 21 people have searched for CAG on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -45% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

Only 6 people have added Conagra Brands to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of 0% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 0.7 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Conagra Brands insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

0.34% of the stock of Conagra Brands is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

83.75% of the stock of Conagra Brands is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 7/15/2026
• Record date for 9/2 Dividend: 7/30/2026
• Ex-Dividend for 9/2 Dividend: 7/30/2026
• Dividend Payable: 9/02/2026
• Today: 9/14/2026
• AGM 2026: 9/23/2026
• Next Earnings (Estimated): 9/30/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 5/31/2027

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NYSE
• Sector: Consumer Staples
• Industry: Food Products
• Sub-Industry: Packaged Foods & Meats
• Current Symbol: NYSE:CAG
• CIK: 23217
• Web: www.conagrabrands.com
• Phone: (312) 549-5000
• Fax: 402-595-4709
• Employees: 17,400
• Year Founded: 1919

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Conagra Brands: $14.03
• High Price Target: $17.00
• Low Price Target: $12.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: -5.1%
• Consensus Rating: Reduce
• Rating Score (0-4): 1.72
• Research Coverage: 18 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): ($4.00)
• Trailing P/E Ratio: N/A
• Forward P/E Ratio: 10.20
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: -$1.92 billion
• Net Margins: -16.99%
• Pretax Margin: -16.17%
• Return on Equity: 10.44%
• Return on Assets: 4.27%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 1.02
• Current Ratio: 0.90
• Quick Ratio: 0.31

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $11.28 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.63
• Cash Flow: $2.58 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 5.73
• Book Value: $13.28 per share
• Price / Book: 1.11

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 478,570,000
• Free Float: 476,939,000
• Market Cap: $7.08 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: -0.01