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$17.49 -0.31 (-1.72%)
Closing price 05/21/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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KLG vs. FRPT, BRFS, NOMD, UTZ, VITL, WYHG, OTLY, MAMA, AFRI, and BYND

Should you be buying WK Kellogg stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WK Kellogg include Freshpet (FRPT), BRF (BRFS), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Utz Brands (UTZ), Vital Farms (VITL), Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Limited (Uplisting) (WYHG), Oatly Group (OTLY), Mama's Creations (MAMA), Forafric Global (AFRI), and Beyond Meat (BYND). These companies are all part of the "food products" industry.

WK Kellogg vs.

WK Kellogg (NYSE:KLG) and Freshpet (NASDAQ:FRPT) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking and dividends.

Freshpet has a net margin of 4.81% compared to WK Kellogg's net margin of 2.66%. WK Kellogg's return on equity of 39.81% beat Freshpet's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
WK Kellogg2.66% 39.81% 6.70%
Freshpet 4.81%3.92%2.60%

95.7% of WK Kellogg shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of WK Kellogg shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Freshpet shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

WK Kellogg has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freshpet has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Freshpet received 512 more outperform votes than WK Kellogg when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.21% of users gave Freshpet an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave WK Kellogg an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
WK KelloggOutperform Votes
No Votes
Underperform Votes
28
100.00%
FreshpetOutperform Votes
512
63.21%
Underperform Votes
298
36.79%

WK Kellogg currently has a consensus target price of $16.86, suggesting a potential downside of 3.63%. Freshpet has a consensus target price of $135.73, suggesting a potential upside of 58.85%. Given Freshpet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Freshpet is more favorable than WK Kellogg.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
WK Kellogg
4 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.43
Freshpet
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.73

WK Kellogg has higher revenue and earnings than Freshpet. WK Kellogg is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freshpet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
WK Kellogg$2.66B0.57$72M$0.6427.33
Freshpet$1.01B4.11-$33.61M$0.31275.65

In the previous week, Freshpet had 3 more articles in the media than WK Kellogg. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Freshpet and 10 mentions for WK Kellogg. WK Kellogg's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Freshpet's score of 1.35 indicating that WK Kellogg is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
WK Kellogg
9 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Freshpet
9 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Freshpet beats WK Kellogg on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KLG vs. The Competition

MetricWK KelloggGrain mill products IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.51B$8.78B$17.53B$19.38B
Dividend Yield3.81%3.26%3.05%3.83%
P/E Ratio21.6019.7216.3034.23
Price / Sales0.571.404.5934.85
Price / Cash7.5138.0416.3917.51
Price / Book4.754.366.174.69
Net Income$72M$607.71M$737.42M$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.36%1.41%0.19%-1.34%
1 Month Performance-7.15%-0.47%4.95%9.79%
1 Year Performance-14.54%-5.77%-3.39%3.27%

WK Kellogg Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KLG
WK Kellogg
1.3165 of 5 stars
$17.49
-1.7%
$16.86
-3.6%
-14.5%$1.54B$2.66B21.603,150
FRPT
Freshpet
3.9213 of 5 stars
$79.62
-1.1%
$135.73
+70.5%
-32.5%$3.88B$1.01B84.701,010Positive News
BRFS
BRF
3.9773 of 5 stars
$3.45
+1.9%
$14.50
+320.9%
-3.8%$3.73B$61.38B8.01105,000Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
NOMD
Nomad Foods
4.4279 of 5 stars
$18.62
-1.7%
$24.00
+28.9%
-3.5%$2.86B$3.10B14.007,540High Trading Volume
UTZ
Utz Brands
4.2122 of 5 stars
$12.38
-0.7%
$17.81
+43.9%
-32.9%$1.75B$1.41B68.773,740
VITL
Vital Farms
4.6346 of 5 stars
$34.56
+2.2%
$44.63
+29.1%
-16.6%$1.54B$620.57M30.86290Positive News
WYHG
Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Limited (Uplisting)
N/A$9.45
-1.6%
N/AN/A$453.35M$144.63M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Lockup Expiration
Gap Down
OTLY
Oatly Group
2.2997 of 5 stars
$9.87
-1.4%
$16.80
+70.2%
-56.1%$295.39M$822.04M-1.451,910Gap Down
MAMA
Mama's Creations
2.5148 of 5 stars
$6.64
+2.8%
$10.67
+60.6%
-0.6%$249.64M$123.33M73.79N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
AFRI
Forafric Global
0.0083 of 5 stars
$7.84
flat
N/A-27.6%$210.73M$274.22M0.001
BYND
Beyond Meat
2.5348 of 5 stars
$2.31
+1.3%
$4.00
+73.2%
-59.5%$176.44M$326.45M-0.55880

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This page (NYSE:KLG) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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