CTVA vs. HSY, GIS, ABEV, KVUE, SYY, KHC, KMB, KDP, EL, and CCEP
Should you be buying Corteva stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Corteva include Hershey (HSY), General Mills (GIS), Ambev (ABEV), Kenvue (KVUE), Sysco (SYY), Kraft Heinz (KHC), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Corteva (NYSE:CTVA) and Hershey (NYSE:HSY) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Corteva currently has a consensus target price of $63.24, suggesting a potential upside of 10.02%. Hershey has a consensus target price of $213.06, suggesting a potential upside of 4.04%. Given Corteva's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Corteva is more favorable than Hershey.
Hershey has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Corteva. Hershey is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Corteva, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hershey had 6 more articles in the media than Corteva. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Hershey and 23 mentions for Corteva. Hershey's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Corteva's score of 0.67 indicating that Hershey is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Corteva pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Hershey pays an annual dividend of $5.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Corteva pays out 81.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hershey pays out 54.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hershey is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
81.5% of Corteva shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.0% of Hershey shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Corteva shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hershey shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hershey received 460 more outperform votes than Corteva when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.37% of users gave Corteva an outperform vote while only 53.17% of users gave Hershey an outperform vote.
Corteva has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hershey has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hershey has a net margin of 18.13% compared to Corteva's net margin of 3.32%. Hershey's return on equity of 50.15% beat Corteva's return on equity.
Summary
Hershey beats Corteva on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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