Ratings Lancaster Colony Corporation

Equities

LANC

US5138471033

Market Closed - Nasdaq Other stock markets 04:00:00 2024-04-18 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
183.6 ^USD	-0.96%		-7.52%	+10.36%

Mar. 11	Jefferies Raises Price Target on Lancaster Colony to $203 From $200, Maintains Hold Rating	MT
Feb. 14	Lancaster Colony Keeps Quarterly Cash Dividend at $0.90 per Share, Payable March 29 to Shareholders of Record on March 7	MT

Summary

Overall, the company has poor fundamentals for a medium to long-term investment strategy.
The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.
The company's Refinitiv ESG score, based on a relative ranking of the company within its sector, comes out particularly poor.

Strengths

For the last few months, EPS revisions have remained quite promising. Analysts now anticipate higher profitability levels than before.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
Analysts' price targets are all relatively close, reflecting good visibility on the company's valuation.

Weaknesses

According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 29.36 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
The company is highly valued given the cash flows generated by its activity.
The overall consensus opinion of analysts has deteriorated sharply over the past four months.

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Sector: Food Processing

	1st Jan change	Capi.	ESG Refinitiv
LANCASTER COLONY CORPORATION	+10.36%	5.05B	C-
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KEWPIE CORPORATION	+23.32%	2.75B	C+
ANHUI HUAHENG BIOTECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.	-13.54%	2.37B	-
QIANHE CONDIMENT AND FOOD CO., LTD.	+1.24%	2.32B	C-

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