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Tate & Lyle (TATE) Competitors

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TATE vs. CWK, GLB, PFD, BAKK, DCG, HFG, GNC, ZAM, BD15, and PURE

Should you be buying Tate & Lyle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tate & Lyle include Cranswick (CWK), Glanbia (GLB), Premier Foods (PFD), Bakkavor Group (BAKK), Dairy Crest Group (DCG), Hilton Food Group (HFG), Greencore Group (GNC), Zambeef Products (ZAM), Tate & Lyle (BD15), and PureCircle (PURE). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods" industry.

Tate & Lyle vs.

Tate & Lyle (LON:TATE) and Cranswick (LON:CWK) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.

Tate & Lyle pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Cranswick pays an annual dividend of GBX 90 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Tate & Lyle pays out 39.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cranswick pays out 42.8% 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. Tate & Lyle is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Tate & Lyle has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cranswick has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

76.4% of Tate & Lyle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of Cranswick shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Tate & Lyle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Cranswick 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, Cranswick had 1 more articles in the media than Tate & Lyle. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Cranswick and 0 mentions for Tate & Lyle. Cranswick's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Tate & Lyle's score of -0.42 indicating that Cranswick is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Tate & Lyle Neutral
Cranswick Positive

Tate & Lyle received 145 more outperform votes than Cranswick when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.52% of users gave Cranswick an outperform vote while only 59.93% of users gave Tate & Lyle an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Tate & LyleOutperform Votes
549
59.93%
Underperform Votes
367
40.07%
CranswickOutperform Votes
404
63.52%
Underperform Votes
232
36.48%

Tate & Lyle has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cranswick. Tate & Lyle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cranswick, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Tate & Lyle£1.81B1.34£206.63M£47.9511.61
Cranswick£2.61B1.07£113.74M£210.1424.70

Tate & Lyle presently has a consensus target price of GBX 720, indicating a potential upside of 29.38%. Cranswick has a consensus target price of GBX 2,700, indicating a potential downside of 47.98%. Given Tate & Lyle's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Tate & Lyle is more favorable than Cranswick.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Tate & Lyle
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
Cranswick
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Tate & Lyle has a net margin of 11.41% compared to Cranswick's net margin of 4.35%. Tate & Lyle's return on equity of 15.37% beat Cranswick's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Tate & Lyle11.41% 15.37% 6.03%
Cranswick 4.35%12.64%8.26%

Summary

Cranswick beats Tate & Lyle on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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TATE vs. The Competition

MetricTate & LylePackaged Foods IndustryDefensive SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£2.42B£2.05B£6.88B£2.56B
Dividend Yield3.30%2.65%3.16%4.97%
P/E Ratio11.6112.2811.64132.30
Price / Sales1.3444.5678.95227,040.56
Price / Cash5.79119.32146.2628.13
Price / Book1.782.962.884.54
Net Income£206.63M£2.63B£1.01B£5.84B
7 Day Performance1.46%0.06%0.04%2.97%
1 Month Performance6.53%1.21%1.30%9.00%
1 Year Performance-14.58%4.71%45.99%114.85%

Tate & Lyle Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TATE
Tate & Lyle
2.9667 of 5 stars
GBX 558
flat
GBX 720
+29.0%
-15.3%£2.43B£1.81B11.643,604News Coverage
CWK
Cranswick
1.016 of 5 stars
GBX 5,150
+0.2%
GBX 2,700
-47.6%
+20.1%£2.78B£2.61B24.5152,000
GLB
Glanbia
N/AGBX 10.01
-0.2%
N/A-36.4%£2.55B£162.12B19.865,534News Coverage
Gap Up
PFD
Premier Foods
2.1329 of 5 stars
GBX 196.40
-0.8%
GBX 225
+14.6%
+22.7%£1.69B£1.14B15.044,000News Coverage
BAKK
Bakkavor Group
1.8424 of 5 stars
GBX 175
+2.3%
GBX 165
-5.7%
+42.1%£1.02B£2.26B15.9418,000
DCG
Dairy Crest Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£958.60M£461.60M22.081,100
HFG
Hilton Food Group
2.7619 of 5 stars
GBX 881
+1.0%
GBX 1,091.67
+23.9%
-3.0%£788.67M£3.80B16.967,000
GNC
Greencore Group
0.305 of 5 stars
GBX 181.20
+1.0%
GBX 130
-28.3%
+40.4%£788.65M£1.72B16.3913,602Dividend Cut
ZAM
Zambeef Products
N/AGBX 4.30
-0.9%
N/A-20.0%£459.06M£179.19B4.157,000News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
BD15
Tate & Lyle
N/AN/AN/AN/A£455.63M£1.38B1.694,441Gap Down
PURE
PureCircle
N/AN/AN/AN/A£183.53M£121.14M-2.7810

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This page (LON:TATE) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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