LW vs. KHC, LANC, THS, BRFH, PLAG, KDP, EL, STZ, KMB, and HSY
Should you be buying Lamb Weston stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lamb Weston include Kraft Heinz (KHC), Lancaster Colony (LANC), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Barfresh Food Group (BRFH), Planet Green (PLAG), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Constellation Brands (STZ), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), and Hershey (HSY).
Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ:KHC) and Lamb Weston (NYSE:LW) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
Kraft Heinz has higher revenue and earnings than Lamb Weston. Lamb Weston is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kraft Heinz, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kraft Heinz pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Lamb Weston pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Kraft Heinz pays out 69.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lamb Weston pays out 19.2% 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. Lamb Weston has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Kraft Heinz had 1 more articles in the media than Lamb Weston. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Kraft Heinz and 6 mentions for Lamb Weston. Kraft Heinz's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Lamb Weston's score of 0.64 indicating that Lamb Weston is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
78.2% of Kraft Heinz shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Lamb Weston shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Kraft Heinz shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Lamb Weston shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Kraft Heinz has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lamb Weston has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lamb Weston has a net margin of 16.71% compared to Lamb Weston's net margin of 10.62%. Kraft Heinz's return on equity of 50.74% beat Lamb Weston's return on equity.
Kraft Heinz currently has a consensus target price of $40.08, suggesting a potential upside of 13.33%. Lamb Weston has a consensus target price of $117.40, suggesting a potential upside of 32.99%. Given Kraft Heinz's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lamb Weston is more favorable than Kraft Heinz.
Kraft Heinz received 293 more outperform votes than Lamb Weston when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.31% of users gave Kraft Heinz an outperform vote while only 64.35% of users gave Lamb Weston an outperform vote.
Summary
Lamb Weston beats Kraft Heinz on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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