HLF vs. JWEL, SOY, CLR, BABY, TPK, BU, SWP, MYLK, JTR, and VPI
Should you be buying High Liner Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of High Liner Foods include Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), SunOpta (SOY), Clearwater Seafoods Incorporated (CLR.TO) (CLR), Else Nutrition (BABY), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (TPK), Burcon NutraScience (BU), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP), Planting Hope (MYLK), GreenSpace Brands (JTR), and Vitality Products (VPI). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods" industry.
High Liner Foods (TSE:HLF) and Jamieson Wellness (TSE:JWEL) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
Jamieson Wellness has lower revenue, but higher earnings than High Liner Foods. High Liner Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jamieson Wellness, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
High Liner Foods has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jamieson Wellness has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Jamieson Wellness has a net margin of 5.50% compared to High Liner Foods' net margin of 2.93%. High Liner Foods' return on equity of 8.34% beat Jamieson Wellness' return on equity.
High Liner Foods presently has a consensus price target of C$15.42, indicating a potential upside of 17.77%. Jamieson Wellness has a consensus price target of C$34.69, indicating a potential upside of 26.58%. Given Jamieson Wellness' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Jamieson Wellness is more favorable than High Liner Foods.
In the previous week, High Liner Foods had 1 more articles in the media than Jamieson Wellness. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for High Liner Foods and 0 mentions for Jamieson Wellness. High Liner Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Jamieson Wellness'average media sentiment score.
16.3% of High Liner Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.6% of Jamieson Wellness shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.2% of High Liner Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Jamieson Wellness shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
High Liner Foods received 11 more outperform votes than Jamieson Wellness when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.29% of users gave Jamieson Wellness an outperform vote while only 50.72% of users gave High Liner Foods an outperform vote.
High Liner Foods pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Jamieson Wellness pays an annual dividend of C$0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. High Liner Foods pays out 47.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Jamieson Wellness pays out 92.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. High Liner Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Jamieson Wellness beats High Liner Foods on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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