LANC vs. THS, FTFT, LW, FLO, RH, FRPT, FIZZ, OLLI, BROS, and POST
Should you be buying Lancaster Colony stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lancaster Colony include TreeHouse Foods (THS), Future FinTech Group (FTFT), Lamb Weston (LW), Flowers Foods (FLO), RH (RH), Freshpet (FRPT), National Beverage (FIZZ), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), Dutch Bros (BROS), and Post (POST).
Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) and TreeHouse Foods (NYSE:THS) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
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.
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.
Lancaster Colony currently has a consensus target price of $198.75, suggesting a potential upside of 3.78%. TreeHouse Foods has a consensus target price of $38.40, suggesting a potential upside of 8.63%. Given TreeHouse Foods' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe TreeHouse Foods is more favorable than Lancaster Colony.
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. Lancaster Colony's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat TreeHouse Foods' score of 0.82 indicating that Lancaster Colony is being referred to more favorably in the media.
66.4% of Lancaster Colony shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 29.6% of Lancaster Colony shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lancaster Colony has a net margin of 7.10% compared to TreeHouse Foods' net margin of 0.76%. Lancaster Colony's return on equity of 18.96% beat TreeHouse Foods' return on equity.
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.
Summary
Lancaster Colony beats TreeHouse Foods on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding LANC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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