Financial Comparison: Glanbia (GLAPF) versus The Competition

Glanbia (OTCMKTS:GLAPF) is one of 330 publicly-traded companies in the “Food Products” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare Glanbia to related businesses based on the strength of its profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.

Profitability

This table compares Glanbia and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Glanbia	N/A	N/A	N/A
Glanbia Competitors	-13.37%	-146.30%	-4.56%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

19.8% of Glanbia shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are held by institutional investors. 18.1% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Glanbia and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Glanbia	N/A	N/A	52.29
Glanbia Competitors	$7.39 billion	$706.83 million	-2,379.67

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Glanbia and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Glanbia	0	1	3	0	2.75
Glanbia Competitors	2380	8215	8297	402	2.35

As a group, “Food Products” companies have a potential upside of 12.20%. Given Glanbia’s rivals higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Glanbia has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Dividends

Glanbia pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Glanbia pays out 17.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Food Products” companies pay a dividend yield of 11.9% and pay out 31.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Glanbia beats its rivals on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

Glanbia Company Profile

Glanbia plc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a nutrition company worldwide. The company offers sports nutrition and lifestyle nutrition products in various formats, such as powders, ready-to-eat bars and snacking food, and ready-to-drink beverage. It also manufactures and sells cheese, dairy, and non-dairy nutritional and functional ingredients; and vitamin and mineral premixes products. In addition, the company engages in the financing; research and development; property and land dealing; holding and management of receivables; property leasing; business services; management solutions; weight management; flavor solutions; and bioactive solutions businesses. It offers its products under the Optimum Nutrition, BSN, Isopure, Nutramino, SlimFast, think!, Amazing Grass, Body & Fit, and LevlUp brands. The company sells its products through specialty retail, online, gym, and food, drug, mass, and club channels. Glanbia plc was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Kilkenny, Ireland.