CPB vs. CAG, FLO, SMPL, USFD, SJM, TAP, LW, ACI, CELH, and SCI
Should you be buying Campbell Soup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Campbell Soup include Conagra Brands (CAG), Flowers Foods (FLO), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), US Foods (USFD), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP), Lamb Weston (LW), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Celsius (CELH), and Service Co. International (SCI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) and Conagra Brands (NYSE:CAG) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
Conagra Brands received 124 more outperform votes than Campbell Soup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.96% of users gave Conagra Brands an outperform vote while only 42.01% of users gave Campbell Soup an outperform vote.
Campbell Soup pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Conagra Brands pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Campbell Soup pays out 57.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Conagra Brands pays out 70.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Campbell Soup has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conagra Brands has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
52.4% of Campbell Soup shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Conagra Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 20.6% of Campbell Soup shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Conagra Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Campbell Soup has a net margin of 8.26% compared to Conagra Brands' net margin of 7.86%. Campbell Soup's return on equity of 23.18% beat Conagra Brands' return on equity.
Campbell Soup has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Conagra Brands. Conagra Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Campbell Soup, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Campbell Soup presently has a consensus target price of $46.38, suggesting a potential upside of 1.06%. Conagra Brands has a consensus target price of $33.14, suggesting a potential upside of 7.43%. Given Conagra Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Conagra Brands is more favorable than Campbell Soup.
In the previous week, Conagra Brands had 10 more articles in the media than Campbell Soup. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Conagra Brands and 2 mentions for Campbell Soup. Campbell Soup's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Conagra Brands' score of 0.85 indicating that Campbell Soup is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Campbell Soup beats Conagra Brands on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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