Utz Brands
About: Utz Brands Inc is a manufacturer of branded salty snacks. It produces a broad offering of salty snacks, including potato chips, tortilla chips, pretzels, cheese snacks, pork skins, pub/party mixes, and other snacks. Its iconic portfolio of authentic, craft, and better-for-you (BFY) brands, which includes Utz, Zapp's, On The Border, Golden Flake, and Boulder Canyon, among others, enjoys household penetration in the United States, where its products can be found in approximately half of U.S. household. The company operates in eight manufacturing facilities with a broad range of capabilities, and its products are distributed nationally to grocery, mass, club, convenience, drug, e-commerce and other retailers through direct shipments, distributors, and approximately 2,500 DSD routes.
Employees: 3,200
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
56% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 103 | Existing positions reduced: 66
44% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $2.64M | Put options by funds: $1.84M
6.75% more ownership
Funds ownership: 87.06% [Q1] → 93.82% (+6.75%) [Q2]
9% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 37 | Existing positions closed: 34
0% more funds holding
Funds holding: 237 [Q1] → 237 (+0) [Q2]
4% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $1.05B [Q1] → $1.01B (-$41.4M) [Q2]
Research analyst outlook
2 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
2 analyst ratings
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UBS
Peter Grom
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$15
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Neutral
Maintained
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17 Jul 2025 |
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Barclays
Andrew Lazar
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$16
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Overweight
Maintained
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27 Jun 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 5 articles about UTZ published over the past 30 days
