PFD vs. UTG, ETO, BME, GLO, BRW, BOE, TRY, USA, NUM, and JPS
Should you be buying Premier Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premier Foods include Unite Group (UTG), Entertainment One (ETO), B&M European Value Retail (BME), ContourGlobal (GLO), Brewin Dolphin (BRW), Boeing (BOE), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Numis (NUM), and JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income plc (JPS.L) (JPS). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
Premier Foods vs. Its Competitors
Premier Foods (LON:PFD) and Unite Group (LON:UTG) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
Premier Foods currently has a consensus target price of GBX 255, indicating a potential upside of 40.57%. Unite Group has a consensus target price of GBX 1,205, indicating a potential upside of 109.75%. Given Unite Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Unite Group is more favorable than Premier Foods.
34.3% of Premier Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of Unite Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Premier Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Unite Group shares are owned 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.
Premier Foods has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unite Group has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Unite Group had 2 more articles in the media than Premier Foods. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Unite Group and 0 mentions for Premier Foods. Unite Group's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Premier Foods' score of 0.00 indicating that Unite Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Unite Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Premier Foods. Unite Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Premier Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Premier Foods pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Unite Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Premier Foods pays out 12.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unite Group pays out 53.6% 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.
Unite Group has a net margin of 79.68% compared to Premier Foods' net margin of 9.89%. Premier Foods' return on equity of 8.49% beat Unite Group's return on equity.
Summary
Unite Group beats Premier Foods on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PFD) was last updated on 10/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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