PBH vs. MFI, JWEL, SAP, PRMW, EMP.A, NWC, SOY, HLF, BU, and SWP
Should you be buying Premium Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premium Brands include Maple Leaf Foods (MFI), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), Saputo (SAP), Primo Water (PRMW), Empire (EMP.A), North West (NWC), SunOpta (SOY), High Liner Foods (HLF), Burcon NutraScience (BU), and Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Maple Leaf Foods (TSE:MFI) and Premium Brands (TSE:PBH) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Premium Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Maple Leaf Foods. Maple Leaf Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Premium Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Premium Brands had 30 more articles in the media than Maple Leaf Foods. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Premium Brands and 1 mentions for Maple Leaf Foods. Maple Leaf Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Premium Brands' score of 0.00 indicating that Premium Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Maple Leaf Foods pays an annual dividend of C$0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Premium Brands pays an annual dividend of C$3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Maple Leaf Foods pays out -676.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Premium Brands pays out 161.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Maple Leaf Foods has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premium Brands has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Maple Leaf Foods currently has a consensus price target of C$30.07, suggesting a potential upside of 26.24%. Premium Brands has a consensus price target of C$113.50, suggesting a potential upside of 23.36%. Given Premium Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Maple Leaf Foods is more favorable than Premium Brands.
Maple Leaf Foods received 121 more outperform votes than Premium Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.21% of users gave Maple Leaf Foods an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Premium Brands an outperform vote.
24.9% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.3% of Premium Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.1% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Premium Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Premium Brands has a net margin of 1.50% compared to Premium Brands' net margin of -0.32%. Maple Leaf Foods' return on equity of 5.26% beat Premium Brands' return on equity.
Summary
Premium Brands beats Maple Leaf Foods on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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