PPC vs. HSY, GIS, K, TSN, MKC, HRL, SJM, CAG, CPB, and SFD
Should you be buying Pilgrim's Pride stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pilgrim's Pride include Hershey (HSY), General Mills (GIS), Kellanova (K), Tyson Foods (TSN), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Hormel Foods (HRL), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Conagra Brands (CAG), Campbell's (CPB), and Smithfield Foods (SFD). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Pilgrim's Pride vs.
Pilgrim's Pride (NASDAQ:PPC) and Hershey (NYSE:HSY) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and risk.
Pilgrim's Pride currently has a consensus target price of $48.40, suggesting a potential upside of 7.33%. Hershey has a consensus target price of $158.84, suggesting a potential downside of 5.46%. Given Pilgrim's Pride's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Pilgrim's Pride is more favorable than Hershey.
Hershey received 245 more outperform votes than Pilgrim's Pride when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.30% of users gave Pilgrim's Pride an outperform vote while only 50.50% of users gave Hershey an outperform vote.
Pilgrim's Pride has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hershey has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hershey has a net margin of 19.83% compared to Pilgrim's Pride's net margin of 6.08%. Hershey's return on equity of 44.77% beat Pilgrim's Pride's return on equity.
Hershey has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pilgrim's Pride. Pilgrim's Pride is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hershey, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hershey had 10 more articles in the media than Pilgrim's Pride. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Hershey and 8 mentions for Pilgrim's Pride. Pilgrim's Pride's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Hershey's score of 1.24 indicating that Pilgrim's Pride is being referred to more favorably in the media.
16.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.0% of Hershey shares are held by institutional investors. 82.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hershey shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Hershey beats Pilgrim's Pride on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PPC) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
