Lamb Weston Holdings Inc (LW) – Don’t Be So Quick to Call it Dead

Lamb Weston Holdings Inc (NYSE: LW) is -23.07% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $47.90 and a high of $89.51 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The LW stock was last observed hovering at around $51.21 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.2%.

Currently trading at $51.41, the stock is -0.92% and -2.83% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.07 million and changing 0.39% at the moment leaves the stock -18.45% off its SMA200. LW registered -39.63% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -36.69%.

The stock witnessed a -8.16% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -9.04%, and is 1.12% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.77% over the week and 2.67% over the month.

Lamb Weston Holdings Inc (LW) has around 10700 employees, a market worth around $7.25B and $6.39B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 20.16 and Fwd P/E is 14.73. Profit margin for the company is 5.74%. Distance from 52-week low is 7.33% and -42.57% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (6.90%).

The EPS is expected to shrink by -38.43% this year

The shares outstanding are 141.11M, and float is at 138.20M with Short Float at 3.73%.

The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 17.05 million shares valued at $1.43 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 11.8124 of the LW Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is FMR LLC with 15.92 million shares valued at $1.34 billion to account for 11.0348 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 10.12 million shares representing 7.01 and valued at over $850.5 million, while STATE STREET CORP holds 3.9306 of the shares totaling 5.67 million with a market value of $476.89 million.

Lamb Weston Holdings Inc (LW) Insider Activity

The most recent transaction is an insider purchase by NIBLOCK ROBERT A, the company’s Director. SEC filings show that NIBLOCK ROBERT A bought 3,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Jan 13 ’25 at a price of $60.94 per share for a total of $0.18 million. Following the purchase, the insider now owns 26406.0 shares.

Lamb Weston Holdings Inc disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Dec 23 ’24 that BLIXT CHARLES A (Director) bought a total of 1,200 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Dec 23 ’24 and was made at $63.25 per share for $75901.0. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 22982.0 shares of the LW stock.

Still, SEC filings show that on Dec 23 ’24, JURGENSEN WILLIAM G (Director) acquired 5,000 shares at an average price of $63.27 for $0.32 million. The insider now directly holds 181,250 shares of Lamb Weston Holdings Inc (LW).

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