Lamb Weston (LW)
Consumer · NYSE · US
Price as at 13 Aug 2026, 07:34 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Lamb Weston trades at $53.11, which is 65% above the $18.58 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 30 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 21.8 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
LW dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $1.14 | 3 |
| 2025 | $1.48 | 4 |
| 2024 | $1.44 | 4 |
| 2023 | $1.12 | 4 |
| 2022 | $0.980 | 4 |
| 2021 | $0.940 | 4 |
| 2020 | $0.920 | 4 |
| 2019 | $0.800 | 4 |
| 2018 | $0.764 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.752 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
LW earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 12 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Lamb Weston
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. engages in the production, distribution, and marketing of frozen potato products in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and internationally. The company offers frozen potatoes, commercial ingredients, and appetizers under the Lamb Weston brand, as well as under various customer labels. It also provides its products under its owned or licensed brands, such as Grown in Idaho and Alexia, and other licensed brands, as well as under retailers' own brands. It sells its products through a network of internal sales personnel and independent brokers, agents, and distributors to quick service and full-service restaurants and chains, wholesale, grocery, mass merchants, club retailers, non-commercial channels, and specialty retailers, as well as foodservice distributors and institutions, including businesses, educational institutions, independent restaurants, regional chain restaurants, and convenience stores. Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 1950 and is headquartered in Eagle, Idaho.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
LW passes 2 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
14 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Jeff Smith, Starboard Value LP$247.59M · 5.5% of book
- JANA Partners, JANA Partners Management, LP$232.94M · 12.3% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$212.75M · 0.1% of book
- Joel Greenblatt, Gotham Asset Management, LLC$29.43M · 0.1% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$15.33M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Is Lamb Weston (LW) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $18.58, LW at $53.11 is 65% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own LW?
14 of the institutions we track reported a position in LW in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is LW's P/E ratio?
LW trades at 21.8 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Lamb Weston (LW) pay a dividend?
Yes. Lamb Weston yields 3.36% at the current share price. It has paid $1.51 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 9 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its LW data?
Fundamentals for LW come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYSE; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 13 Aug 2026, 07:34 UTC and is delayed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.