LW Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Lamb Weston Holdings Common | NYSE:LW)

Lamb Weston is North America's largest and the world's second-largest producer of branded and private-label frozen potato products, both by volume and value. The company's portfolio is anchored by french fries, but it also sells sweet potato fries, tater tots, diced potatoes, mashed potatoes, hash browns, and chips. Roughly two thirds of revenue comes from its home market of North America, with none of the other 100 countries the company sells into representing a significant share. McDonald's is Lamb Weston's single-largest customer at 15% of fiscal 2025 sales, with no other company representing more than 10%. Lamb Weston became an independent company in 2016 when it was spun off from Conagra.

Lamb Weston Holdings Common trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol LW.

As of August 14, 2026, LW stock price declined to $53.07 with 693,170 million shares trading.

LW has a beta of 0.30, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. LW has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

LW has a market cap of $7.30 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Lamb Weston Holdings Common reported $2 billion in Revenue and $.92 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $82 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.30.

In the last 3 years, LW traded as high as $111.88 and as low as $37.62.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that LW belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, VB, VBR, SPSM.

LW has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -0.5% while the SPY ETF gained +21.5%. However, in the short term, LW had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +26.3% vs +4.0% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, LW shares have been beat by the market, returning +1.7% compared to an SPY return of +3.9%.

LW support price is $52.42 and resistance is $55.14 (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 LW shares will trade within this expected range on the day.