HFG vs. BAKK, GNC, PFD, CWK, TATE, CCR, BAG, MPE, PZC, and NICL
Should you be buying Hilton Food Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hilton Food Group include Bakkavor Group (BAKK), Greencore Group (GNC), Premier Foods (PFD), Cranswick (CWK), Tate & Lyle (TATE), C&C Group (CCR), A.G. BARR (BAG), M.P. Evans Group (MPE), PZ Cussons (PZC), and Nichols (NICL). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Bakkavor Group (LON:BAKK) and Hilton Food Group (LON:HFG) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
Bakkavor Group has a net margin of 2.45% compared to Bakkavor Group's net margin of 0.91%. Bakkavor Group's return on equity of 12.12% beat Hilton Food Group's return on equity.
47.0% of Bakkavor Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.6% of Hilton Food Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 49.7% of Bakkavor Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Hilton Food Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Bakkavor Group has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hilton Food Group has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hilton Food Group received 302 more outperform votes than Bakkavor Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.65% of users gave Hilton Food Group an outperform vote while only 65.05% of users gave Bakkavor Group an outperform vote.
Hilton Food Group has a consensus price target of GBX 865, indicating a potential downside of 3.24%. Given Bakkavor Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hilton Food Group is more favorable than Bakkavor Group.
Bakkavor Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Hilton Food Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Bakkavor Group pays out 7,777.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hilton Food Group pays out 8,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bakkavor Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Bakkavor Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hilton Food Group. Bakkavor Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hilton Food Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hilton Food Group had 1 more articles in the media than Bakkavor Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Hilton Food Group and 0 mentions for Bakkavor Group. Hilton Food Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Bakkavor Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Hilton Food Group beats Bakkavor Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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