THS vs. LANC, MGPI, KLG, DNUT, GO, EPC, VSTS, WLYB, WLY, and TLRY
Should you be buying TreeHouse Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TreeHouse Foods include Lancaster Colony (LANC), MGP Ingredients (MGPI), WK Kellogg (KLG), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), Grocery Outlet (GO), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Vestis (VSTS), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), and Tilray (TLRY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) and TreeHouse Foods (NYSE:THS) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Lancaster Colony has a net margin of 7.10% compared to Lancaster Colony's net margin of 0.76%. TreeHouse Foods' return on equity of 18.96% 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lancaster Colony has a beta of 0.39, suggesting that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TreeHouse Foods has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lancaster Colony had 3 more articles in the media than TreeHouse Foods. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Lancaster Colony and 6 mentions for TreeHouse Foods. TreeHouse Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Lancaster Colony's score of 0.82 indicating that Lancaster Colony is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lancaster Colony presently has a consensus target price of $198.75, indicating a potential upside of 3.78%. TreeHouse Foods has a consensus target price of $38.40, indicating a potential upside of 8.63%. Given Lancaster Colony's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TreeHouse Foods is more favorable than Lancaster Colony.
Lancaster Colony has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TreeHouse Foods. Lancaster Colony is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TreeHouse Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TreeHouse Foods received 102 more outperform votes than Lancaster Colony when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.73% of users gave TreeHouse Foods an outperform vote while only 63.24% of users gave Lancaster Colony an outperform vote.
Summary
Lancaster Colony beats TreeHouse Foods on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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