Lamb Weston Holdings Inc vs United Microelectronics Corp — how do they compare? Lamb Weston Holdings Inc trades at $46.42 (market cap $6.43B), while United Microelectronics Corp trades at $21.12 (market cap $51.00B). The key difference: United Microelectronics Corp is far larger — about 7.9× 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 | UMC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $6.43B | $51.00B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Technology |
52-Week High | $66.57 | $28.02 |
52-Week Low | $38.48 | $6.58 |
Enterprise Value | $10.40B | $48.57B |
Dividend Yield | 3.26% | 2.03% |
Trailing returns across standard periods
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 →Founded in 1980, United Microelectronics is the world's third-largest dedicated chip foundry, with 7% market share in 2021, according to Gartner, after TSMC and GlobalFoundries. UMC's headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and it operates 12 fabs in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan and Singapore, with additional sales offices in Europe, the U.S. and South Korea. UMC features a diverse customer base including Texas Instruments, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx and Realtek, supplying a wide range of products applied in communications, display, memory, automotive and more. UMC employs about 20,000 people.
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