LWAY vs. BGS, HAIN, CVGW, SENEA, FARM, MDLZ, HSY, GIS, TSN, and K
Should you be buying Lifeway Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lifeway Foods include B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Calavo Growers (CVGW), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Farmer Bros. (FARM), Mondelez International (MDLZ), Hershey (HSY), General Mills (GIS), Tyson Foods (TSN), and Kellanova (K). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ:LWAY) and B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Lifeway Foods currently has a consensus target price of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 56.25%. B&G Foods has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.42%. Given Lifeway Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lifeway Foods is more favorable than B&G Foods.
B&G Foods received 52 more outperform votes than Lifeway Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.07% of users gave Lifeway Foods an outperform vote while only 54.80% of users gave B&G Foods an outperform vote.
Lifeway Foods has a net margin of 7.77% compared to B&G Foods' net margin of -5.42%. Lifeway Foods' return on equity of 22.34% beat B&G Foods' return on equity.
Lifeway Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. B&G Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Lifeway Foods pays out 9.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. B&G Foods pays out -52.8% 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. B&G Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lifeway Foods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than B&G Foods. B&G Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lifeway Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
36.4% of Lifeway Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.8% of Lifeway Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Lifeway Foods had 2 more articles in the media than B&G Foods. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Lifeway Foods and 6 mentions for B&G Foods. Lifeway Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat B&G Foods' score of 0.52 indicating that Lifeway Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lifeway Foods has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, B&G Foods has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lifeway Foods beats B&G Foods on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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