USFD vs. SYY, DPZ, HFFG, RAVE, CUEN, WTER, KDP, KMB, STZ, and EL
Should you be buying US Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of US Foods include Sysco (SYY), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), HF Foods Group (HFFG), Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE), Cuentas (CUEN), Alkaline Water (WTER), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Constellation Brands (STZ), and Estée Lauder Companies (EL).
US Foods (NYSE:USFD) and Sysco (NYSE:SYY) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
98.8% of US Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Sysco shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of US Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Sysco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
US Foods currently has a consensus price target of $62.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.04%. Sysco has a consensus price target of $85.10, indicating a potential upside of 17.12%. Given Sysco's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sysco is more favorable than US Foods.
In the previous week, US Foods had 13 more articles in the media than Sysco. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for US Foods and 8 mentions for Sysco. Sysco's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat US Foods' score of 0.59 indicating that Sysco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sysco has higher revenue and earnings than US Foods. Sysco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than US Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
US Foods has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sysco has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sysco has a net margin of 2.66% compared to US Foods' net margin of 1.41%. Sysco's return on equity of 99.88% beat US Foods' return on equity.
Sysco received 72 more outperform votes than US Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.96% of users gave US Foods an outperform vote while only 58.04% of users gave Sysco an outperform vote.
Summary
Sysco beats US Foods on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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