THS vs. LANC, KLG, WLY, ENR, WLYB, TR, TLRY, DNUT, EPC, and HELE
Should you be buying TreeHouse Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TreeHouse Foods include Lancaster Colony (LANC), WK Kellogg (KLG), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Energizer (ENR), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), Tilray (TLRY), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), and Helen of Troy (HELE). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) and TreeHouse Foods (NYSE:THS) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability and community ranking.
Lancaster Colony presently has a consensus target price of $198.75, suggesting a potential upside of 3.39%. TreeHouse Foods has a consensus target price of $46.67, suggesting a potential upside of 23.07%. Given Lancaster Colony's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TreeHouse Foods is more favorable than Lancaster Colony.
In the previous week, Lancaster Colony had 8 more articles in the media than TreeHouse Foods. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Lancaster Colony and 2 mentions for TreeHouse Foods. Lancaster Colony's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat TreeHouse Foods' score of 0.42 indicating that TreeHouse Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lancaster Colony has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TreeHouse Foods. TreeHouse Foods 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 net margin of 6.92% compared to Lancaster Colony's net margin of 1.51%. TreeHouse Foods' return on equity of 17.37% beat Lancaster Colony's return on equity.
66.4% of Lancaster Colony shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of TreeHouse Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.6% of Lancaster Colony shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of TreeHouse Foods shares are owned 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.
Lancaster Colony has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TreeHouse Foods has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TreeHouse Foods received 103 more outperform votes than Lancaster Colony when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave TreeHouse Foods an outperform vote while only 63.28% of users gave Lancaster Colony an outperform vote.
Summary
Lancaster Colony beats TreeHouse Foods on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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