LANC Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Lancaster Colony | NASDAQ:LANC)

Lancaster Colony Corp is a manufacturer and marketer of speciality food products. The company's segments include Retail and Foodservice. The key products and brands are salad dressing and sauces (Cardini's, Girard's, Marzetti), frozen garlic breads (New York Brand Bakery, Mamma Bella), vegetable dips and fruit dips (Marzetti), frozen parkerhouse-style yeast rolls and dinner rolls (Sister Schubert's, Mary B's), premium dry egg noodles (Amish Kitchen), frozen speciality noodles (Reames, Aunt Vi's), croutons and salad toppings, flatbread wraps, and pizza crusts.

Lancaster Colony trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol LANC.

As of March 11, 2025, LANC stock price declined to $184.40 with 144,478 million shares trading.

LANC has a beta of 0.54, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. LANC has a correlation of 0.06 to the broad based SPY ETF.

LANC has a market cap of $5.08 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Lancaster Colony reported $509 million in Revenue and $2.22 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $14 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.28.

In the last 3 years, LANC traded as high as $220.65 and as low as $116.85.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that LANC belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, IWM, VB, VXF.

LANC has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -8.4%, while SPY returned +10.0%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in LANC shares. However, LANC has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning -2.4% and -4.7%, while SPY returned -7.5% and -6.9%, respectively. This indicates LANC has been having a stronger performance recently.

LANC support price is $183.54 and resistance is $190.87 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that LANC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.