Lamb Weston (LW)

• Market cap: $7.36B
• 1 day: -1.28%
• 5 days: -9.44%
• 1 month: -17.28%
• 3 months: -32.77%
• 6 months: -17.06%
• Year to date: -21.84%
• 1 year: -49.42%
• 5 years: -44.95%
• 10 years: 51.82%
• Sector: Consumer Staples
• Industry: Canned, Frozen & Preserved Fruits, Vegetables, and Food Specialties

About: Lamb Weston is North America's largest and the world's second-largest producer of branded and private-label frozen potato products, both by volume and value. The company's portfolio is anchored by french fries, but it also sells sweet potato fries, tater tots, diced potatoes, mashed potatoes, hash browns, and chips. Roughly two thirds of revenue comes from its home market of North America, with none of the other 100 countries the company sells into representing a significant share. McDonald's is Lamb Weston's single-largest customer at 14% of fiscal 2024 sales, with no other company representing more than 10%. Lamb Weston became an independent company in 2016 when it was spun off from Conagra.

Employees: 10,700

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

80% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 5 [Q3] → 9 (+4) [Q4]

23% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 116 | Existing positions closed: 94

13% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $8.42B [Q3] → $9.49B (+$1.07B) [Q4]

9.16% more ownership

Funds ownership: 90.41% [Q3] → 99.57% (+9.16%) [Q4]

1% more funds holding

Funds holding: 675 [Q3] → 679 (+4) [Q4]

3% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $499M | Put options by funds: $513M

18% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 205 | Existing positions reduced: 250

Research analyst outlook

7 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $60 16% upside
• Avg. target: $76 48% upside
• High target: $95 84% upside

7 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 29%
• neutral: 5 71%
• negative: 0 0%

Barclays Lauren Lieberman 48% 1-year accuracy 41 / 86 met price target	16% upside $60	Overweight Maintained	23 Dec 2024
Stifel Matthew Smith 57% 1-year accuracy 17 / 30 met price target	32% upside $68	Hold Maintained	20 Dec 2024
Citigroup Thomas Palmer 27% 1-year accuracy 9 / 33 met price target	32% upside $68	Neutral Downgraded	20 Dec 2024
Jefferies Rob Dickerson 57% 1-year accuracy 4 / 7 met price target	84% upside $95	Buy Maintained	17 Dec 2024
JP Morgan Ken Goldman 45% 1-year accuracy 5 / 11 met price target	51% upside $78	Neutral Maintained	16 Dec 2024