Financial Survey: Utz Brands (UTZ) and Its Rivals

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

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’ competitors have a beta of -3.84, suggesting that their average share price is 484% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

96.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.8% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are held by institutional investors. 12.7% of Utz Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.4% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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 raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.

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	-43.17
Utz Brands Competitors	$15.47 billion	$700.98 million	-2,425.89

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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Utz Brands and its competitors, as reported 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	2449	8300	8375	404	2.34

Utz Brands currently has a consensus target price of $13.39, indicating a potential downside of 6.03%. As a group, “Food Products” companies have a potential upside of 17.87%. Given Utz Brands’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Utz Brands has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

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	-12.76%	-127.70%	-1.99%

Summary

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

About Utz Brands

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.