LW vs. LANC, KHC, TAP, SJM, ACI, USFD, CPB, COTY, SCI, and CAG
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), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Albertsons Companies (ACI), US Foods (USFD), Campbell Soup (CPB), Coty (COTY), Service Co. International (SCI), and Conagra Brands (CAG). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) and Lamb Weston (NYSE:LW) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Lancaster Colony received 53 more outperform votes than Lamb Weston when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.35% of users gave Lamb Weston an outperform vote while only 63.24% of users gave Lancaster Colony an outperform vote.
Lancaster Colony currently has a consensus target price of $198.75, indicating a potential upside of 1.28%. Lamb Weston has a consensus target price of $117.40, indicating a potential upside of 40.06%. Given Lancaster Colony's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lamb Weston is more favorable than Lancaster Colony.
66.4% of Lancaster Colony shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Lamb Weston shares are held by institutional investors. 29.6% of Lancaster Colony shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Lamb Weston shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lancaster Colony has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lamb Weston has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lancaster Colony had 7 more articles in the media than Lamb Weston. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Lancaster Colony and 6 mentions for Lamb Weston. Lancaster Colony's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Lamb Weston's score of 0.63 indicating that Lamb Weston is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 pays an annual dividend of $3.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Lamb Weston pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Lancaster Colony pays out 74.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lamb Weston pays out 19.2% 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 61 consecutive years and Lamb Weston has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Lancaster Colony is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Lamb Weston has a net margin of 16.71% compared to Lamb Weston's net margin of 7.10%. Lancaster Colony's return on equity of 50.74% beat Lamb Weston's return on equity.
Summary
Lamb Weston beats Lancaster Colony on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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