SOY vs. MFI, JWEL, CLR, HLF, BABY, TPK, BU, SWP, MYLK, and JTR
Should you be buying SunOpta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunOpta include Maple Leaf Foods (MFI), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), Clearwater Seafoods Incorporated (CLR.TO) (CLR), High Liner Foods (HLF), Else Nutrition (BABY), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (TPK), Burcon NutraScience (BU), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP), Planting Hope (MYLK), and GreenSpace Brands (JTR). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods" industry.
SunOpta (TSE:SOY) and Maple Leaf Foods (TSE:MFI) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Maple Leaf Foods has a consensus target price of C$30.07, indicating a potential upside of 30.18%. Given Maple Leaf Foods' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Maple Leaf Foods is more favorable than SunOpta.
Maple Leaf Foods has higher revenue and earnings than SunOpta. Maple Leaf Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SunOpta, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SunOpta and SunOpta both had 1 articles in the media. SunOpta's average media sentiment score of 0.59 equaled Maple Leaf Foods'average media sentiment score.
88.3% of SunOpta shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.8% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of SunOpta shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 40.1% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Maple Leaf Foods received 344 more outperform votes than SunOpta when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.31% of users gave SunOpta an outperform vote while only 65.21% of users gave Maple Leaf Foods an outperform vote.
SunOpta has a beta of 1.73, meaning that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Maple Leaf Foods has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Maple Leaf Foods has a net margin of -0.32% compared to SunOpta's net margin of -26.43%. Maple Leaf Foods' return on equity of -1.00% beat SunOpta's return on equity.
Summary
Maple Leaf Foods beats SunOpta on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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