SAP vs. PBH, MFI, MRU, EMP.A, PRMW, WN, DOL, JWEL, SOY, and HLF
Should you be buying Saputo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saputo include Premium Brands (PBH), Maple Leaf Foods (MFI), Metro (MRU), Empire (EMP.A), Primo Water (PRMW), George Weston (WN), Dollarama (DOL), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), SunOpta (SOY), and High Liner Foods (HLF). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Saputo (TSE:SAP) and Premium Brands (TSE:PBH) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and community ranking.
Saputo currently has a consensus price target of C$33.81, suggesting a potential upside of 26.12%. Premium Brands has a consensus price target of C$111.70, suggesting a potential upside of 26.54%. Given Premium Brands' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Premium Brands is more favorable than Saputo.
Saputo pays an annual dividend of C$0.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Premium Brands pays an annual dividend of C$3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Saputo pays out 94.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Premium Brands pays out 161.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Saputo received 26 more outperform votes than Premium Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.86% of users gave Saputo an outperform vote while only 55.68% of users gave Premium Brands an outperform vote.
Saputo has higher revenue and earnings than Premium Brands. Saputo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Premium Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
22.9% of Saputo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.3% of Premium Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 42.1% of Saputo shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Premium Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Premium Brands had 10 more articles in the media than Saputo. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Premium Brands and 4 mentions for Saputo. Premium Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Saputo's score of 0.11 indicating that Premium Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Saputo has a net margin of 1.92% compared to Premium Brands' net margin of 1.50%. Premium Brands' return on equity of 5.26% beat Saputo's return on equity.
Saputo has a beta of 0.32, suggesting that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premium Brands has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Saputo beats Premium Brands on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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