FARM vs. LWAY, MED, MDLZ, HSY, GIS, K, TSN, MKC, HRL, and CAG
Should you be buying Farmer Bros. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Farmer Bros. include Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Medifast (MED), Mondelez International (MDLZ), Hershey (HSY), General Mills (GIS), Kellanova (K), Tyson Foods (TSN), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Hormel Foods (HRL), and Conagra Brands (CAG).
Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ:LWAY) and Farmer Bros. (NASDAQ:FARM) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.
Lifeway Foods has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Farmer Bros. has a beta of 1.77, meaning that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lifeway Foods currently has a consensus price target of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 83.49%. Given Farmer Bros.'s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lifeway Foods is more favorable than Farmer Bros..
Lifeway Foods has a net margin of 7.77% compared to Lifeway Foods' net margin of -13.46%. Farmer Bros.'s return on equity of 22.34% beat Lifeway Foods' return on equity.
36.4% of Lifeway Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.5% of Farmer Bros. shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.8% of Lifeway Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Farmer Bros. shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Farmer Bros. received 76 more outperform votes than Lifeway Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.14% of users gave Lifeway Foods an outperform vote while only 68.66% of users gave Farmer Bros. an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Lifeway Foods had 1 more articles in the media than Farmer Bros.. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Lifeway Foods and 1 mentions for Farmer Bros.. Lifeway Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.90 beat Farmer Bros.'s score of 0.00 indicating that Farmer Bros. is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lifeway Foods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Farmer Bros.. Farmer Bros. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lifeway Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lifeway Foods beats Farmer Bros. on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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