KLG vs. FRPT, POST, MGPI, THS, EPC, WLY, WLYB, GO, TR, and ENR
Should you be buying WK Kellogg stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WK Kellogg include Freshpet (FRPT), Post (POST), MGP Ingredients (MGPI), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), Grocery Outlet (GO), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), and Energizer (ENR). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Freshpet (NASDAQ:FRPT) and WK Kellogg (NYSE:KLG) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
WK Kellogg has higher revenue and earnings than Freshpet.
Freshpet presently has a consensus target price of $119.71, indicating a potential downside of 5.48%. WK Kellogg has a consensus target price of $16.95, indicating a potential downside of 19.09%. Given WK Kellogg's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Freshpet is more favorable than WK Kellogg.
Freshpet has a net margin of 1.19% compared to Freshpet's net margin of 0.00%. WK Kellogg's return on equity of 0.20% beat Freshpet's return on equity.
Freshpet received 473 more outperform votes than WK Kellogg when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.24% of users gave Freshpet an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave WK Kellogg an outperform vote.
95.7% of WK Kellogg shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Freshpet shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of WK Kellogg shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Freshpet and Freshpet both had 7 articles in the media. Freshpet's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat WK Kellogg's score of 0.77 indicating that WK Kellogg is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Freshpet beats WK Kellogg on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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