Lamb Weston Holdings Inc vs Ryanair Holdings plc — how do they compare? Lamb Weston Holdings Inc trades at $46.42 (market cap $6.43B), while Ryanair Holdings plc trades at $58.99 (market cap $29.31B). The key difference: Ryanair Holdings plc is far larger — about 4.6× Lamb Weston Holdings Inc's market cap, and Lamb Weston Holdings Inc pays the higher dividend (3.26%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| LW | RYAAY | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $6.43B | $29.31B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Industrials |
52-Week High | $66.57 | $73.82 |
52-Week Low | $38.48 | $53.24 |
Enterprise Value | $10.40B | $26.33B |
Dividend Yield | 3.26% | 1.68% |
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Lamb Weston is the world's second-largest producer of branded and private-label frozen potato products, such as French fries, sweet potato fries, tater tots, diced potatoes, mashed potatoes, hash browns, and chips. The company also has a small appetizer business that produces onion rings, mozzarella sticks, and cheese curds. Including joint ventures, 63% of fiscal 2022 revenue was U.S.-based, with the remainder stemming from Europe, Canada, Japan, China, Korea, Mexico, and several other countries. Lamb Weston's customer mix is estimated 58% quick-serve restaurants, 19% full-service restaurants, 8% other food services (hotels, commercial cafeterias, arenas, schools), and 16% retail. Lamb Weston became an independent company in 2016 when it was spun off from Conagra.
Read more on LW →Ryanair is the leading airline group by passenger numbers in Europe. The company employs a low-cost no-frills model to offer low fares to leisure customers on short-haul intra-European routes. In 2020, the most recent pre-pandemic fiscal year, the company carried 149 million passengers, utilizing a fleet of 467 Boeing 737 aircraft across its 1,800 routes. To keep costs low the company serves predominantly lower-cost secondary airports. The company generated sales of EUR 8.5 billion in fiscal 2020.
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