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Premier Foods (PFD) Competitors

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GBX 181.40 -2.20 (-1.20%)
As of 10/17/2025 11:54 AM Eastern

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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Premier Foods
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Unite Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

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.

Company Overall Sentiment
Premier Foods Neutral
Unite Group Positive

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Premier Foods£1.15B1.36£112.38M£0.141,286.52
Unite Group£321.50M8.74£299.23M£0.70825.43

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Premier Foods9.89% 8.49% 4.78%
Unite Group 79.68%6.45%2.50%

Summary

Unite Group beats Premier Foods on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PFD vs. The Competition

MetricPremier FoodsPackaged Foods IndustryDefensive SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.56B£4.40B£7.47B£2.57B
Dividend Yield1.56%2.67%3.24%5.37%
P/E Ratio1,286.523,091.681,080.564,242.54
Price / Sales1.363,531.251,011,604.8699,406.89
Price / Cash38.64119.32144.7427.90
Price / Book1.1824.199.048.11
Net Income£112.38M£2.63B£1.01B£5.89B
7 Day Performance0.89%0.36%0.63%-0.62%
1 Month Performance-3.64%-3.06%-1.91%0.73%
1 Year Performance-5.82%477.84%177.68%128.71%

Premier Foods Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PFD
Premier Foods
N/AGBX 181.40
-1.2%
GBX 255
+40.6%
-5.8%£1.56B£1.15B1,286.524,000
UTG
Unite Group
3.7527 of 5 stars
GBX 599
-0.4%
GBX 1,205
+101.2%
-38.4%£2.93B£321.50M860.631,801
ETO
Entertainment One
N/AN/AN/AN/A£2.78B£928.60M-123.781,259
BME
B&M European Value Retail
4.2744 of 5 stars
GBX 224.35
-2.2%
GBX 364.44
+62.4%
-46.4%£2.25B£5.57B705.4939,484High Trading Volume
GLO
ContourGlobal
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.65B£2.57B1,091.301,518High Trading Volume
BRW
Brewin Dolphin
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.56B£415.46M3,029.412,186
BOE
Boeing
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.32B£70.54B-30.77156,000Gap Up
TRY
TR Property Investment Trust
N/AGBX 322.50
+1.1%
N/A-4.9%£1.02B-£19.36M-3,728.3226Positive News
USA
Baillie Gifford US Growth
N/AGBX 263.88
-0.4%
N/A+25.6%£731.86M£136.67M561.79N/APositive News
NUM
Numis
N/AN/AN/AN/A£377.30M£130.31M17,150.00220
JPS
JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income plc (JPS.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£305.80M-£1.02M-48.36N/A

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This page (LON:PFD) was last updated on 10/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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