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Here's What You May Have Missed About Lamb Weston (LW)

Lamb Weston logged a -0.5% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $92.03 per share. On average, analysts give it a target price of $122.71.

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. produces, distributes, and markets frozen potato products worldwide. The large-cap company is based in the United States. Lamb Weston currently returns an annual dividend yield of 1.1%.

Make Sure to Consider the Following Before Buying Lamb Weston:

  • Lamb Weston has moved 21.0% over the last year.

  • LW has a forward P/E ratio of 15.4 based on its EPS guidance of 5.97.

  • Over the last 6 years, earnings per share (EPS) have been growing at a compounded average rate of 20.9%.

  • The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 0.46.

  • Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 9.5

Lamb Weston Has Irregular Cash Flows

Date Reported Cash Flow from Operations ($ k) Capital expenditures ($ k) Free Cash Flow ($ k) YoY Growth (%)
2022-07-27 418,100 -290,100 708,200 1.11
2021-07-27 553,200 -147,200 700,400 -5.57
2020-07-28 574,000 -167,700 741,700 -26.93
2019-07-25 680,900 -334,200 1,015,100 28.82
2018-07-26 481,200 -306,800 788,000 7.31
2017-07-25 446,900 -287,400 734,300

Lamb Weston's free cash flows have a decent average of $781.28 Million over the last 6 years, but they are highly variable since their coefficient of variability is 15017258543.5%. The compounded average growth rate over this period is 0.0%.

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