PRMW vs. EMP.A, PBH, MFI, NWC, SAP, MRU, JWEL, SOY, RSI, and LAS.A
Should you be buying Primo Water stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Primo Water include Empire (EMP.A), Premium Brands (PBH), Maple Leaf Foods (MFI), North West (NWC), Saputo (SAP), Metro (MRU), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), SunOpta (SOY), Rogers Sugar (RSI), and Lassonde Industries (LAS.A). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Empire (TSE:EMP.A) and Primo Water (TSE:PRMW) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and earnings.
Empire received 282 more outperform votes than Primo Water when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Primo Water an outperform vote while only 45.87% of users gave Empire an outperform vote.
Empire presently has a consensus target price of C$38.43, indicating a potential upside of 14.20%. Given Primo Water's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Empire is more favorable than Primo Water.
Empire has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Primo Water has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Primo Water has a net margin of 14.20% compared to Primo Water's net margin of 2.46%. Primo Water's return on equity of 14.81% beat Empire's return on equity.
42.7% of Empire shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.2% of Primo Water shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Empire shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Primo Water 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.
In the previous week, Empire had 2 more articles in the media than Primo Water. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Empire and 0 mentions for Primo Water. Primo Water's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Empire's score of 0.00 indicating that Empire is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Empire pays an annual dividend of C$0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Primo Water pays an annual dividend of C$0.49 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Empire pays out 24.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Primo Water pays out 72.1% 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. Empire is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Empire has higher revenue and earnings than Primo Water. Empire is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Primo Water, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Empire beats Primo Water on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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