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DOLE vs. LANC, CALM, FLO, JJSF, TR, THS, JBSS, SENEA, BGS, and CVGW

Should you be buying (DOLE) stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of (DOLE) include Lancaster Colony (LANC), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Flowers Foods (FLO), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), TreeHouse Foods (THS), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Seneca Foods (SENEA), B&G Foods (BGS), and Calavo Growers (CVGW). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.

(DOLE) vs.

Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) and (DOLE) (NYSE:DOLE) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Lancaster Colony presently has a consensus price target of $211.33, indicating a potential upside of 20.71%. (DOLE) has a consensus price target of $16.67, indicating a potential upside of 12.96%. Given Lancaster Colony's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Lancaster Colony is more favorable than (DOLE).

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Lancaster Colony
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25
(DOLE)
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

Lancaster Colony has higher earnings, but lower revenue than (DOLE). (DOLE) is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lancaster Colony, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lancaster Colony$1.90B2.54$158.61M$5.6930.77
(DOLE)$8.25B0.17$124.06M$1.967.53

In the previous week, Lancaster Colony had 3 more articles in the media than (DOLE). MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Lancaster Colony and 5 mentions for (DOLE). Lancaster Colony's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat (DOLE)'s score of 0.00 indicating that Lancaster Colony is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Lancaster Colony
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
(DOLE)
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Lancaster Colony pays an annual dividend of $3.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. (DOLE) pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Lancaster Colony pays out 66.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. (DOLE) pays out 16.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Lancaster Colony has increased its dividend for 62 consecutive years. Lancaster Colony is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Lancaster Colony has a beta of 0.31, indicating that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, (DOLE) has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Lancaster Colony received 262 more outperform votes than (DOLE) when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.40% of users gave Lancaster Colony an outperform vote while only 59.81% of users gave (DOLE) an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Lancaster ColonyOutperform Votes
390
62.40%
Underperform Votes
235
37.60%
(DOLE)Outperform Votes
128
59.81%
Underperform Votes
86
40.19%

Lancaster Colony has a net margin of 8.26% compared to (DOLE)'s net margin of 2.23%. Lancaster Colony's return on equity of 19.51% beat (DOLE)'s return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lancaster Colony8.26% 19.51% 15.19%
(DOLE) 2.23%8.35%2.67%

66.4% of Lancaster Colony shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.5% of Lancaster Colony shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 41.8% of (DOLE) shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Lancaster Colony beats (DOLE) on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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DOLE vs. The Competition

Metric(DOLE)Agricultural production IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.29B$1.58B$17.10B$18.89B
Dividend Yield2.35%2.82%2.87%3.79%
P/E Ratio7.4912.2315.9331.43
Price / Sales0.170.812.4725.45
Price / Cash6.289.1316.3917.54
Price / BookN/A0.906.664.36
Net Income$124.06M$7.79M$731.75M$1.02B

(DOLE) Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DOLE
(DOLE)
3.4155 of 5 stars
$14.76
+15.1%
$16.67
+13.0%
+27.9%$1.29B$8.25B7.5334,078
LANC
Lancaster Colony
4.5929 of 5 stars
$175.00
+0.1%
$211.33
+20.8%
-14.6%$4.83B$1.90B30.763,200Positive News
CALM
Cal-Maine Foods
3.0057 of 5 stars
$90.90
-0.1%
$74.50
-18.0%
+52.3%$4.46B$3.08B7.072,980Upcoming Earnings
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Positive News
Gap Down
FLO
Flowers Foods
4.1218 of 5 stars
$19.05
+0.9%
$21.00
+10.3%
-16.9%$4.02B$5.10B16.289,200Short Interest ↓
Positive News
JJSF
J&J Snack Foods
3.918 of 5 stars
$131.72
+1.2%
$167.50
+27.2%
-3.4%$2.57B$1.59B30.355,000Positive News
TR
Tootsie Roll Industries
0.7467 of 5 stars
$31.48
+0.5%
N/A+1.3%$2.25B$723.22M25.802,000Positive News
THS
TreeHouse Foods
4.3673 of 5 stars
$27.10
0.0%
$34.83
+28.5%
-28.8%$1.36B$3.35B50.187,400
JBSS
John B. Sanfilippo & Son
1.5317 of 5 stars
$70.86
+0.1%
N/A-33.0%$824.67M$1.12B16.991,300News Coverage
SENEA
Seneca Foods
0.8842 of 5 stars
$89.04
-1.4%
N/A+58.7%$612.60M$1.54B16.253,000High Trading Volume
BGS
B&G Foods
2.985 of 5 stars
$6.89
+3.8%
$8.10
+17.6%
-40.5%$544.87M$1.93B-20.253,080High Trading Volume
CVGW
Calavo Growers
4.4448 of 5 stars
$23.99
-0.9%
$35.00
+45.9%
-8.5%$427.91M$688.32M-399.833,270Ex-Dividend
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