ADM vs. HSY, KVUE, KMB, GIS, SYY, KHC, ABEV, STZ, EL, and KDP
Should you be buying Archer-Daniels-Midland stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Archer-Daniels-Midland include Hershey (HSY), Kenvue (KVUE), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), General Mills (GIS), Sysco (SYY), Kraft Heinz (KHC), Ambev (ABEV), Constellation Brands (STZ), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), and Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Hershey (NYSE:HSY) and Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
Hershey pays an annual dividend of $4.77 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Archer-Daniels-Midland pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Hershey pays out 51.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Archer-Daniels-Midland pays out 25.1% 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. Hershey has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Archer-Daniels-Midland has raised its dividend for 50 consecutive years.
Hershey has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Archer-Daniels-Midland has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
56.5% of Hershey shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.7% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hershey shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Hershey had 5 more articles in the media than Archer-Daniels-Midland. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Hershey and 10 mentions for Archer-Daniels-Midland. Hershey's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Archer-Daniels-Midland's score of 0.19 indicating that Archer-Daniels-Midland is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Archer-Daniels-Midland received 42 more outperform votes than Hershey when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.94% of users gave Archer-Daniels-Midland an outperform vote while only 53.94% of users gave Hershey an outperform vote.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has higher revenue and earnings than Hershey. Archer-Daniels-Midland is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hershey, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hershey presently has a consensus target price of $244.05, suggesting a potential upside of 27.79%. Archer-Daniels-Midland has a consensus target price of $92.90, suggesting a potential upside of 23.73%. Given Archer-Daniels-Midland's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Hershey is more favorable than Archer-Daniels-Midland.
Hershey has a net margin of 17.11% compared to Hershey's net margin of 4.05%. Archer-Daniels-Midland's return on equity of 54.74% beat Hershey's return on equity.
Summary
Archer-Daniels-Midland beats Hershey on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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