Financial Comparison: Utz Brands (UTZ) versus Its Peers

Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) is one of 328 publicly-traded companies in the “Food Products” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Utz Brands to similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Utz Brands and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Utz Brands	-2.00%	8.97%	4.32%
Utz Brands Competitors	-13.54%	-450.68%	-2.55%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Utz Brands and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Utz Brands	1	9	1	0	2.00
Utz Brands Competitors	2435	8279	8358	401	2.35

Utz Brands presently has a consensus target price of $13.39, suggesting a potential downside of 6.06%. As a group, “Food Products” companies have a potential upside of 18.85%. Given Utz Brands’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Utz Brands has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Utz Brands and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Utz Brands	$1.44 billion	$800,000.00	-43.18
Utz Brands Competitors	$6.82 billion	$702.59 million	-2,414.37

Utz Brands’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Utz Brands. Utz Brands is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Volatility and Risk

Utz Brands has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utz Brands’ competitors have a beta of -3.83, meaning that their average share price is 483% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Utz Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Utz Brands pays out -75.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Food Products” companies pay a dividend yield of 12.4% and pay out 29.5% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Utz Brands has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

96.0% of Utz Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are owned by institutional investors. 12.7% of Utz Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.8% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Utz Brands competitors beat Utz Brands on 8 of the 15 factors compared.

Utz Brands Company Profile

Utz Brands, Inc. engages in manufacture, marketing, and distribution of snack foods. It offers a range of salty snacks, including salty snacks, including potato chips, tortilla chips, pretzels, cheese snacks, pork skins, veggie snacks, pub/party mixes, tortilla chips, salsa and dips, ready-to-eat popcorn, and other snacks under the Utz, Zapp’s, ON THE BORDER, Golden Flake, Boulder Canyon, Hawaiian, TORTIYAHS!, etc. The company sells its products to wholesale and other distributors, grocery stores, convenience and drug stores, discount stores, mass merchandisers, membership club stores, hard discounters, and specialty and e-commerce retailers. Utz Brands, Inc. was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Hanover, Pennsylvania.