LWAY vs. BGS, HAIN, CVGW, SENEA, FARM, MDLZ, HSY, GIS, K, and TSN
Should you be buying Lifeway Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lifeway Foods include B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Calavo Growers (CVGW), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Farmer Bros. (FARM), Mondelez International (MDLZ), Hershey (HSY), General Mills (GIS), Kellanova (K), and Tyson Foods (TSN). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) and Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ:LWAY) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and valuation.
Lifeway Foods has a net margin of 7.77% compared to Lifeway Foods' net margin of -5.42%. B&G Foods' return on equity of 22.34% beat Lifeway Foods' return on equity.
B&G Foods received 51 more outperform votes than Lifeway Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.14% of users gave Lifeway Foods an outperform vote while only 54.80% of users gave B&G Foods an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Lifeway Foods had 1 more articles in the media than B&G Foods. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Lifeway Foods and 1 mentions for B&G Foods. Lifeway Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat B&G Foods' score of 0.00 indicating that B&G Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
66.2% of B&G Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.4% of Lifeway Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of B&G Foods shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Lifeway Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lifeway Foods has lower revenue, but higher earnings than B&G Foods. B&G Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lifeway Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
B&G Foods has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lifeway Foods has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
B&G Foods presently has a consensus price target of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.60%. Lifeway Foods has a consensus price target of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 82.93%. Given B&G Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lifeway Foods is more favorable than B&G Foods.
Summary
Lifeway Foods beats B&G Foods on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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