LWAY vs. LMNR, CSV, CBUS, SENEA, MED, AFRI, PLIN, MAMA, YSG, and TDUP
Should you be buying Lifeway Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lifeway Foods include Limoneira (LMNR), Carriage Services (CSV), Cibus (CBUS), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Medifast (MED), Forafric Global (AFRI), China Xiangtai Food (PLIN), Mama's Creations (MAMA), Yatsen (YSG), and ThredUp (TDUP). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ:LWAY) and Limoneira (NASDAQ:LMNR) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Lifeway Foods currently has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.94%. Limoneira has a consensus target price of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.78%. Given Lifeway Foods' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lifeway Foods is more favorable than Limoneira.
Lifeway Foods received 11 more outperform votes than Limoneira when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.09% of users gave Lifeway Foods an outperform vote while only 62.42% of users gave Limoneira an outperform vote.
Lifeway Foods has a net margin of 7.77% compared to Limoneira's net margin of -5.40%. Lifeway Foods' return on equity of 22.34% beat Limoneira's return on equity.
36.4% of Lifeway Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of Limoneira shares are held by institutional investors. 31.8% of Lifeway Foods shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Limoneira shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Lifeway Foods had 20 more articles in the media than Limoneira. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Lifeway Foods and 1 mentions for Limoneira. Limoneira's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Lifeway Foods' score of 0.17 indicating that Limoneira is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lifeway Foods has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Limoneira has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lifeway Foods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Limoneira. Limoneira is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lifeway Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lifeway Foods beats Limoneira on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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