ARMK vs. PPC, COKE, INGR, NYT, ELF, DAR, CHWY, SCI, COTY, and POST
Should you be buying Aramark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aramark include Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Ingredion (INGR), New York Times (NYT), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Chewy (CHWY), Service Co. International (SCI), Coty (COTY), and Post (POST). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Aramark (NYSE:ARMK) and Pilgrim's Pride (NASDAQ:PPC) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking and valuation.
Aramark has a net margin of 3.37% compared to Pilgrim's Pride's net margin of 1.85%. Aramark's return on equity of 13.45% beat Pilgrim's Pride's return on equity.
Aramark has higher revenue and earnings than Pilgrim's Pride. Aramark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pilgrim's Pride, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aramark has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pilgrim's Pride has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Aramark received 79 more outperform votes than Pilgrim's Pride when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.32% of users gave Aramark an outperform vote while only 60.38% of users gave Pilgrim's Pride an outperform vote.
Aramark currently has a consensus price target of $33.04, indicating a potential upside of 2.13%. Pilgrim's Pride has a consensus price target of $37.25, indicating a potential upside of 4.17%. Given Pilgrim's Pride's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Pilgrim's Pride is more favorable than Aramark.
In the previous week, Pilgrim's Pride had 3 more articles in the media than Aramark. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Pilgrim's Pride and 6 mentions for Aramark. Pilgrim's Pride's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Aramark's score of 0.79 indicating that Pilgrim's Pride is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
16.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Aramark shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 82.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Aramark beats Pilgrim's Pride on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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