Utz Brands (UTZ) & Its Rivals Head-To-Head Comparison

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

Volatility & Risk

Utz Brands has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utz Brands’ peers have a beta of -3.83, suggesting that their average share price is 483% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Utz Brands and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Utz Brands	$1.45 billion	$800,000.00	-43.23
Utz Brands Competitors	$6.89 billion	$705.45 million	-2,413.15

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

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 12.3% and pay out 29.5% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Utz Brands has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.

Profitability

This table compares Utz Brands and its peers’ 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	-13.38%	-127.80%	-2.58%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

96.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are held by institutional investors. 12.7% of Utz Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.8% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Utz Brands and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Utz Brands	1	9	1	0	2.00
Utz Brands Competitors	2448	8295	8374	403	2.34

Utz Brands currently has a consensus target price of $13.39, suggesting a potential downside of 6.16%. As a group, “Food Products” companies have a potential upside of 19.08%. Given Utz Brands’ peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Utz Brands has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Summary

Utz Brands peers 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.