LW vs. LANC, KHC, CAG, CHWY, SJM, CPB, TSN, TAP, CLX, and IFF
Should you be buying Lamb Weston stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lamb Weston include Lancaster Colony (LANC), Kraft Heinz (KHC), Conagra Brands (CAG), Chewy (CHWY), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Campbell Soup (CPB), Tyson Foods (TSN), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP), Clorox (CLX), and International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Lamb Weston vs.
Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) and Lamb Weston (NYSE:LW) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Lamb Weston has a consensus target price of $118.40, indicating a potential upside of 4.21%. Given Lamb Weston's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lamb Weston is more favorable than Lancaster Colony.
In the previous week, Lancaster Colony had 4 more articles in the media than Lamb Weston. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Lancaster Colony and 3 mentions for Lamb Weston. Lamb Weston's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Lancaster Colony's score of 0.90 indicating that Lamb Weston is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lancaster Colony received 64 more outperform votes than Lamb Weston when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.05% of users gave Lancaster Colony an outperform vote while only 63.93% of users gave Lamb Weston an outperform vote.
Lamb Weston has a net margin of 11.27% compared to Lancaster Colony's net margin of 7.21%. Lamb Weston's return on equity of 110.40% beat Lancaster Colony's return on equity.
60.7% of Lancaster Colony shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Lamb Weston shares are held by institutional investors. 29.9% of Lancaster Colony shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Lamb Weston shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lamb Weston has higher revenue and earnings than Lancaster Colony. Lamb Weston is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lancaster Colony, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lancaster Colony has a beta of 0.22, meaning that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lamb Weston has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lancaster Colony pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Lamb Weston pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Lancaster Colony pays out 71.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lamb Weston pays out 29.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Lancaster Colony has raised its dividend for 60 consecutive years and Lamb Weston has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Lancaster Colony is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Lamb Weston beats Lancaster Colony on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding LW and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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