THS vs. POST, CALM, LANC, FLO, JJSF, TR, JBSS, BGS, SENEA, and HAIN
Should you be buying TreeHouse Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TreeHouse Foods include Post (POST), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), B&G Foods (BGS), Seneca Foods (SENEA), and The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
TreeHouse Foods vs.
Post (NYSE:POST) and TreeHouse Foods (NYSE:THS) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, valuation and institutional ownership.
Post presently has a consensus target price of $123.57, indicating a potential upside of 14.42%. TreeHouse Foods has a consensus target price of $34.80, indicating a potential downside of 0.60%. Given Post's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Post is more favorable than TreeHouse Foods.
Post has higher revenue and earnings than TreeHouse Foods. TreeHouse Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Post, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Post has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TreeHouse Foods has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TreeHouse Foods received 65 more outperform votes than Post when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.62% of users gave Post an outperform vote while only 64.43% of users gave TreeHouse Foods an outperform vote.
94.8% of Post shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 11.4% of Post shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Post has a net margin of 4.63% compared to TreeHouse Foods' net margin of -0.72%. Post's return on equity of 10.49% beat TreeHouse Foods' return on equity.
In the previous week, Post had 57 more articles in the media than TreeHouse Foods. MarketBeat recorded 68 mentions for Post and 11 mentions for TreeHouse Foods. Post's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat TreeHouse Foods' score of 0.08 indicating that Post is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Post beats TreeHouse Foods on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:THS) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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