FARM vs. LWAY, MED, MDLZ, HSY, GIS, TSN, K, 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), Tyson Foods (TSN), Kellanova (K), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Hormel Foods (HRL), and Conagra Brands (CAG).
Farmer Bros. (NASDAQ:FARM) and Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ:LWAY) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
64.5% of Farmer Bros. shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.4% of Lifeway Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Farmer Bros. shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Lifeway Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lifeway Foods has a consensus target price of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 56.25%. Given Lifeway Foods' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lifeway Foods is more favorable than Farmer Bros..
Lifeway Foods has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Farmer Bros. received 77 more outperform votes than Lifeway Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.07% of users gave Lifeway Foods an outperform vote while only 68.66% of users gave Farmer Bros. an outperform vote.
Farmer Bros. has a beta of 1.77, meaning that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lifeway Foods has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lifeway Foods had 4 more articles in the media than Farmer Bros.. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Lifeway Foods and 4 mentions for Farmer Bros.. Lifeway Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Farmer Bros.'s score of 0.39 indicating that Lifeway Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lifeway Foods has a net margin of 7.77% compared to Farmer Bros.'s net margin of -13.46%. Lifeway Foods' return on equity of 22.34% beat Farmer Bros.'s return on equity.
Summary
Lifeway Foods beats Farmer Bros. on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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