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$19.14 -0.45 (-2.30%)
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KLG vs. FRPT, BRFS, NOMD, UTZ, VITL, WYHG, MAMA, OTLY, AFRI, and BYND

Should you be buying WK Kellogg stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WK Kellogg include Freshpet (FRPT), BRF (BRFS), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Utz Brands (UTZ), Vital Farms (VITL), Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Limited (Uplisting) (WYHG), Mama's Creations (MAMA), Oatly Group (OTLY), Forafric Global (AFRI), and Beyond Meat (BYND). These companies are all part of the "food products" industry.

WK Kellogg vs.

Freshpet (NASDAQ:FRPT) and WK Kellogg (NYSE:KLG) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.

Freshpet received 508 more outperform votes than WK Kellogg when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.26% of users gave Freshpet an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave WK Kellogg an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
FreshpetOutperform Votes
508
63.26%
Underperform Votes
295
36.74%
WK KelloggOutperform Votes
No Votes
Underperform Votes
28
100.00%

WK Kellogg has higher revenue and earnings than Freshpet. WK Kellogg is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freshpet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Freshpet$975.18M3.96-$33.61M$0.9484.32
WK Kellogg$2.71B0.61$72M$0.8123.63

95.7% of WK Kellogg shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Freshpet shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of WK Kellogg shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Freshpet has a net margin of 4.81% compared to WK Kellogg's net margin of 2.66%. WK Kellogg's return on equity of 39.81% beat Freshpet's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Freshpet4.81% 3.92% 2.60%
WK Kellogg 2.66%39.81%6.70%

Freshpet has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WK Kellogg has a beta of 0.39, suggesting that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Freshpet had 18 more articles in the media than WK Kellogg. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Freshpet and 5 mentions for WK Kellogg. WK Kellogg's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Freshpet's score of 0.61 indicating that WK Kellogg is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Freshpet
7 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
5 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
WK Kellogg
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Freshpet presently has a consensus price target of $143.80, suggesting a potential upside of 81.43%. WK Kellogg has a consensus price target of $17.89, suggesting a potential downside of 6.54%. Given Freshpet's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Freshpet is more favorable than WK Kellogg.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Freshpet
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80
WK Kellogg
5 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.44

Summary

Freshpet beats WK Kellogg on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KLG vs. The Competition

MetricWK KelloggGrain mill products IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.65B$9.04B$17.01B$18.52B
Dividend Yield3.48%3.22%3.02%4.23%
P/E Ratio23.6319.3915.3031.15
Price / Sales0.611.393.6825.69
Price / Cash7.5138.0416.3917.53
Price / Book5.204.536.274.29
Net Income$72M$607.71M$734.35M$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.74%-0.43%0.49%-0.79%
1 Month Performance-4.85%-0.90%-1.71%-6.88%
1 Year Performance-9.33%5.55%-1.17%1.74%

WK Kellogg Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KLG
WK Kellogg
1.3391 of 5 stars
$19.14
-2.3%
$17.89
-6.5%
-8.7%$1.65B$2.71B23.633,150Gap Down
FRPT
Freshpet
3.5875 of 5 stars
$79.70
+0.3%
$146.53
+83.9%
-25.0%$3.88B$975.18M84.791,010Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
BRFS
BRF
3.9197 of 5 stars
$3.14
-4.4%
$10.70
+241.2%
-0.1%$3.39B$61.38B7.29105,000
NOMD
Nomad Foods
4.1945 of 5 stars
$18.83
-2.9%
$24.00
+27.5%
+6.2%$2.89B$3.10B14.167,894Positive News
Gap Down
UTZ
Utz Brands
4.239 of 5 stars
$13.25
-5.1%
$19.25
+45.3%
-16.9%$1.87B$1.41B73.623,740Short Interest ↑
Positive News
Gap Down
VITL
Vital Farms
4.1075 of 5 stars
$32.69
+1.4%
$42.00
+28.5%
+35.7%$1.45B$606.31M29.19290News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
WYHG
Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Limited (Uplisting)
N/A$7.60
-19.0%
N/AN/A$364.60M$189.44B0.00N/APositive News
High Trading Volume
MAMA
Mama's Creations
2.2787 of 5 stars
$7.04
+3.4%
$10.67
+51.5%
+36.1%$264.61M$116.47M78.23N/AEarnings Report
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
OTLY
Oatly Group
2.1627 of 5 stars
$8.71
-2.2%
$19.75
+126.8%
-52.8%$259.15M$823.67M-1.281,910Gap Down
AFRI
Forafric Global
0.1334 of 5 stars
$8.48
+0.2%
N/A-16.3%$227.93M$325.10M0.001Positive News
BYND
Beyond Meat
2.9505 of 5 stars
$2.90
+1.0%
$4.92
+69.5%
-60.7%$220.78M$326.45M-0.69880
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