Financial Analysis: Glanbia (GLAPF) versus Its Peers

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

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 11.8% and pay out 31.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Glanbia and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Glanbia	0	1	3	0	2.75
Glanbia Competitors	2371	8210	8288	402	2.35

As a group, “Food Products” companies have a potential upside of 11.56%. Given Glanbia’s peers higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Glanbia has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

19.8% of Glanbia shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.2% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are owned by institutional investors. 18.7% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Glanbia and its peers’ 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	-13.42%	-146.31%	-4.56%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Glanbia and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Glanbia	N/A	N/A	52.29
Glanbia Competitors	$7.21 billion	$702.37 million	-2,366.98

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

Summary

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

About Glanbia

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.