MFI vs. PBH, JWEL, SOY, CLR, HLF, BABY, TPK, BU, SWP, and MYLK
Should you be buying Maple Leaf Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maple Leaf Foods include Premium Brands (PBH), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), SunOpta (SOY), 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), and Planting Hope (MYLK). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods" industry.
Premium Brands (TSE:PBH) and Maple Leaf Foods (TSE:MFI) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
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, Maple Leaf Foods had 1 more articles in the media than Premium Brands. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Maple Leaf Foods and 1 mentions for Premium Brands. Maple Leaf Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Premium Brands' score of 0.00 indicating that Premium Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Premium Brands currently has a consensus price target of C$113.50, suggesting a potential upside of 26.08%. Maple Leaf Foods has a consensus price target of C$30.07, suggesting a potential upside of 29.45%. Given Premium Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly 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.
Premium Brands pays an annual dividend of C$3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Maple Leaf Foods pays an annual dividend of C$0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Premium Brands pays out 160.4% 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 pays out -676.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Maple Leaf Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
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 5.37% beat Premium Brands' return on equity.
43.3% of Premium Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.8% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Premium Brands shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 40.1% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Premium Brands has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to 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.
Summary
Premium Brands beats Maple Leaf Foods on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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