BRFS vs. PLIN, HRL, CAG, CPB, USFD, LW, SJM, ACI, TAP, and SCI
Should you be buying BRF stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BRF include China Xiangtai Food (PLIN), Hormel Foods (HRL), Conagra Brands (CAG), Campbell Soup (CPB), US Foods (USFD), Lamb Weston (LW), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP), and Service Co. International (SCI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
China Xiangtai Food (NASDAQ:PLIN) and BRF (NYSE:BRFS) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
BRF has a consensus target price of $3.80, suggesting a potential upside of 10.14%. Given China Xiangtai Food's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BRF is more favorable than China Xiangtai Food.
BRF received 300 more outperform votes than China Xiangtai Food when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave China Xiangtai Food an outperform vote while only 56.20% of users gave BRF an outperform vote.
In the previous week, BRF had 1 more articles in the media than China Xiangtai Food. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BRF and 0 mentions for China Xiangtai Food. China Xiangtai Food's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat BRF's score of 0.00 indicating that BRF is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
China Xiangtai Food has a beta of 0.01, meaning that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BRF has a beta of 1.89, meaning that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.
1.5% of China Xiangtai Food shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.8% of BRF shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of BRF shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BRF has a net margin of 0.81% compared to BRF's net margin of 0.00%. China Xiangtai Food's return on equity of 2.93% beat BRF's return on equity.
China Xiangtai Food has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BRF.
Summary
BRF beats China Xiangtai Food on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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