LANC vs. THS, FTFT, LW, MKC, HRL, CAG, CPB, SJM, PPC, 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), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Hormel Foods (HRL), Conagra Brands (CAG), Campbell Soup (CPB), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), and Post (POST).
TreeHouse Foods (NYSE:THS) and Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
Lancaster Colony has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
In the previous week, Lancaster Colony had 2 more articles in the media than TreeHouse Foods. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Lancaster Colony and 2 mentions for TreeHouse Foods. Lancaster Colony's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat TreeHouse Foods' score of 1.04 indicating that TreeHouse Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lancaster Colony has a net margin of 7.10% compared to Lancaster Colony's net margin of 0.76%. TreeHouse Foods' return on equity of 18.96% beat Lancaster Colony's return on equity.
TreeHouse Foods presently has a consensus price target of $38.40, suggesting a potential upside of 5.76%. Lancaster Colony has a consensus price target of $198.75, suggesting a potential upside of 7.14%. Given TreeHouse Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lancaster Colony is more favorable than TreeHouse Foods.
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.
99.8% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.4% of Lancaster Colony shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.6% of Lancaster Colony 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.
TreeHouse Foods has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lancaster Colony has a beta of 0.39, suggesting that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lancaster Colony beats TreeHouse Foods on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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