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Utz Brands, Inc.

$UTZ·$1.3B·Packaged Foods·Consumer Defensive
$14.21+0.0%YTD+36.6%1Y+5.0%
Price updated 9m ago·X counts updated 18h ago
UTUTZ
$UTZUtz Brands, Inc.
$14.22+0.04%3 posts
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The complete picture of $UTZ on X — how loud the conversation is right now, how it has trended over the last two weeks, and which way the crowd is leaning.

3X posts · last 7 days
Aug 22Sep 8
Bullish sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data12 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-29

Utz Brands is being taken private by Germany's Intersnack Group at a 91% premium — closing the M&A speculation loop. Bulls describe this as still 'a steal for the acquirer even with the premium.' Bearish voices are limited to hindsight complaints about management not screaming louder about the mispricing. Sentiment is bullish (M&A completion).

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AI verdictAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

TickerTalks' own read on what's driving $UTZ — fundamentals, momentum, or an event — and whether it agrees with the X crowd.

Broken storyEvent coming upAI verdict · as of 2026-09-09

A known event soon (earnings, a ruling, etc.) will likely decide the next move.

Utz Brands is being taken private by Intersnack at $14.25 — the deal is announced and law firms are running fair-price investigations; the tape is stuck around the offer.

Utz Brands is a mid-cap salty-snacks maker with a signed take-private at $14.25/share from Germany's Intersnack Group: Q1 revenue $361.3M +2.6% YoY, Q4 revenue $342.2M +0.3%, Q2 EPS $0.19 vs $0.185 estimate (+3%), gross margin 22-25%, operating margin 2%.

  • Aug 28-Sep 2 BFA Law and other firms opened investigations into whether the $14.25 per-share Intersnack offer is fair to shareholders — routine post-announcement litigation designed to secure a bump or plaintiff-counsel fees rather than to block.
  • The Rice Family Foundation (Stacie Rice Lissette as Trustee) filed a Form 3 on July 22 as part of the 10%+ owner group with 900K Class A shares — pre-deal share disclosure.
  • Stock at $14.21 is essentially at the offer price; the +37% YTD move captured the deal announcement, and the residual chatter is about deal-completion risk vs. a bump.
  • Analyst consensus revenue $1.50B → $1.51B → $1.56B (2026-2028) with EPS $0.78 → $0.84 → $0.93 — pre-deal fundamentals were fine but not accelerating.
  • Beta 0.77, 99% of the 52-week range at $14.21 — the deal price is now the effective ceiling.

The playbook here is: does the deal close at $14.25, or does the litigation force a bump?

Agrees with X sentimentX frames the Intersnack $14.25 take-private as 'still a steal for the acquirer even with the premium' — that's the crowd's fair-price complaint, and it aligns with the law-firm investigations. Both are real signals, and both point to the same event: whether Intersnack pays a bump to close.

What to watch: Deal-close milestones — proxy vote scheduling, HSR/antitrust clearance, and any Intersnack response to the BFA Law-style investigations that could produce a bumped price. Oct 29 Q3 print will be pre-close housekeeping unless the deal already closed by then.

On the calendar: 2026-10-29 Q3 earnings.

m and a pending

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Salty snack producer with a portfolio of regional brands (Utz, Zapp's, Golden Flake) distributed direct-store-delivery across the U.S.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Packaged Foods sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $UTZ.

Packaged Foods · Consumer Defensive

Consumer packaged food volumes are recovering as pricing moderation supports household demand; private-label share gains have pressured branded players. AI-supply-chain demand-forecasting and reformulation for GLP-1 users (lower-calorie, higher-protein) are next investment themes.

What this means for $UTZ

Partial — Utz Brands salty snacks; DTC and regional brand, recovering from post-COVID overexpansion.

Industry benchmark

12-name peer basket
+35.4%YTD
+22.0%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-143.8How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-2.5%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-4.4%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
3.4%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
0.9Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-1.2%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
22.3%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.1Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Aug 5, 2026$0.19$0.18+2.9%
Q1 2026May 6, 2026$0.15$0.14+7.1%
Q4 2025Feb 12, 2026$0.26$0.260.0%
Q3 2025Oct 30, 2025$0.23$0.230.0%
Next earningsThu, Oct 29·consensus EPS $0.24

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$361.3M+2.6%25.4%1.8%$-0.02$-26.0M
Q4 FY25$342.2M+0.3%-6.6%-23.4%$-0.03$51.3M
Q3 FY25$377.8M+3.4%33.6%0.9%$-0.17$27.7M
Q2 FY25$366.7M+3.0%34.6%1.7%$0.12$-10.6M

Forward consensus

3-year forecast · up to 6 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$1.5B$1.5B – $1.5B$0.78$0.77 – $0.796
FY27$1.5B$1.5B – $1.5B$0.84$0.80 – $0.896
FY28$1.6B$1.6B – $1.6B$0.93$0.93 – $0.943

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.4×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.99%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+16.2%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+48.5%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 77.6M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.3% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.775-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

No open-market buys or sells in the last 180 days.

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

3New insider — initial holdingsJul 223
AI summary

The Rice Family Foundation (Stacie Rice Lissette, Trustee), a member of the Utz Brands 10% owner group, filed an initial Form 3 reporting direct ownership of 900,000 shares of Utz Class A Common Stock as of July 20, 2026. No derivative securities were reported. The filing coincides with Utz's merger agreement with Intersnack Group signed the same day, and reflects the Foundation's status as part of the controlling family shareholder group whose consent was integral to the transaction.

SC 13D/AActivist amendmentJul 22SC 13D/A
AI summary

Multiple Utz Brands insider entities — Series U of UM Partners LLC (50.6M shares, 37.3% of combined classes) and Series R of UM Partners LLC (8.9M shares, 9.2%) — filed Amendment No. 3 to their Schedule 13D, triggered by the merger agreement with Intersnack Group signed July 20, 2026. The Rice Family Foundation also appears as a co-filer. Share counts blend Class A and Class V common stock against a total float of 88.6M Class A and 55.3M Class V shares per the merger agreement. The amendment reflects the controlling shareholder group's formal involvement in and support for the proposed acquisition.

8-KMaterial agreementJul 228-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 5.03: Charter amendment
AI summary

Utz Brands, Inc. entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with Idaho USA, Inc. (a subsidiary of Intersnack Group GmbH & Co. KG, a German snack conglomerate) on July 20, 2026, under which Utz will become an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Intersnack. The board unanimously approved the deal, acting on a Special Committee of independent disinterested directors; the 8-K is also filed as soliciting material under Rule 14a-12, indicating a shareholder vote will be required. The deal would take Utz private under one of Europe's largest snack companies; the per-share merger consideration was not disclosed in the body excerpt.

8-KOfficer or director changeMay 288-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Utz Brands, Inc. (UTZ) disclosed on May 28, 2026 that Mitchell Arends, EVP and Chief Integrated Supply Chain Officer, resigned effective June 19, 2026 to join another public company, with no disagreement cited. CEO Howard Friedman will assume the additional principal operating officer role and take on integrated supply chain responsibilities alongside other senior leadership. Separately, the company reaffirmed its previously issued fiscal 2026 financial outlook under Reg FD. The supply chain leadership departure — not backfilled with an external hire immediately — leaves execution risk in a function critical to a consumer snack brands company managing cost pressures and distribution complexity.

8-KPress release / Reg FDMay 68-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
8-KShareholder voteApr 278-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
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Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

$UTZ News: Utz Brands $14.25 per share Offer is Under Investigation by BFA Law – Current Shareholders Urged to Contact the Firmglobenewswire.com·7d agoUTZ Investment Losses: BFA Law Reminds Investors of the Pending Investigation into the Utz Brands $14.25 per share Transactionglobenewswire.com·9d agoAre UTZ, VCTR, FULC, CZR Obtaining Fair Deals for their Shareholders?gurufocus.com·12d agoInvestor Notice: The Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) $14.25 Transaction is Being Investigated by BFA Law on behalf of Current Shareholdersglobenewswire.com·12d ago138,670 Shares in Utz Brands, Inc. $UTZ Purchased by Ancora Advisors LLCdefenseworld.net·13d ago

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