ARMK vs. PPC, CHWY, INGR, COKE, NYT, DAR, POST, SCI, BROS, and COTY
Should you be buying Aramark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aramark include Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Chewy (CHWY), Ingredion (INGR), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), New York Times (NYT), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Post (POST), Service Co. International (SCI), Dutch Bros (BROS), and Coty (COTY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Aramark (NYSE:ARMK) and Pilgrim's Pride (NASDAQ:PPC) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk and dividends.
Aramark has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pilgrim's Pride has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Aramark received 79 more outperform votes than Pilgrim's Pride when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.26% of users gave Aramark an outperform vote while only 60.53% of users gave Pilgrim's Pride an outperform vote.
Aramark has higher revenue and earnings than Pilgrim's Pride. Aramark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pilgrim's Pride, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Aramark had 9 more articles in the media than Pilgrim's Pride. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Aramark and 7 mentions for Pilgrim's Pride. Pilgrim's Pride's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Aramark's score of 0.68 indicating that Pilgrim's Pride is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aramark currently has a consensus price target of $33.32, suggesting a potential upside of 6.05%. Pilgrim's Pride has a consensus price target of $32.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.55%. Given Aramark's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Aramark is more favorable than Pilgrim's Pride.
16.4% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Aramark shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 82.7% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Aramark has a net margin of 3.37% compared to Pilgrim's Pride's net margin of 1.85%. Aramark's return on equity of 13.45% beat Pilgrim's Pride's return on equity.
Summary
Aramark beats Pilgrim's Pride on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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