Is the Tate amp;amp; Lyle share price good value at 729.8p?

Tate & Lyle (LON:TATE) is a large cap provider of ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage and other industries. The Company operates primarily in two industries: corn wet milling and sweeteners, and its brands include DOLCIA PRIMA Allulose, PUREFRUIT Monk Fruit Extract, TASTEVA Stevia Sweetener, CLARIA Functional Clean-Label Starches, PROMITOR Soluble Fibre, PromOat Beta Glucan and SODA-LO Salt Microspheres.

Right now the Tate & Lyle share price appears to represent reasonable value, as shown in the group's Value Rank of 54. Let's explore this in more detail.

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Digging into Tate & Lyle's Value Rank

Looking at Tate & Lyle's StockReport, we can see that the group has a:

• Rolling price to book value of 2.32,

• Trailing twelve month price to earnings ratio of 11.9

• Trailing twelve month price to free cashflow of 17.3

• Rolling dividend yield of 4.04%

• Trailing twelve-month price to sales ratio of 1.25

This combination of financial traits suggests that, while Tate & Lyle stock is not the cheapest, it is far from expensive at these levels and is worth considering - especially if it is exposed to other positive stock market factors as well.

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