BF.A vs. CHD, BF.B, IFF, TSN, MKC, CELH, HRL, CCEP, CLX, and ADM
Should you be buying Brown-Forman stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brown-Forman include Church & Dwight (CHD), Brown-Forman (BF.B), International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Tyson Foods (TSN), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Celsius (CELH), Hormel Foods (HRL), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Clorox (CLX), and Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Brown-Forman (NYSE:BF.A) and Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Church & Dwight has a consensus target price of $103.27, suggesting a potential downside of 1.04%. Given Church & Dwight's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Church & Dwight is more favorable than Brown-Forman.
Brown-Forman has a net margin of 22.65% compared to Church & Dwight's net margin of 12.88%. Brown-Forman's return on equity of 29.01% beat Church & Dwight's return on equity.
In the previous week, Church & Dwight had 16 more articles in the media than Brown-Forman. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Church & Dwight and 0 mentions for Brown-Forman. Church & Dwight's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Brown-Forman's score of 0.00 indicating that Church & Dwight is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Church & Dwight received 407 more outperform votes than Brown-Forman when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.22% of users gave Church & Dwight an outperform vote while only 55.69% of users gave Brown-Forman an outperform vote.
3.8% of Brown-Forman shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of Church & Dwight shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Brown-Forman shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Church & Dwight shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Brown-Forman has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Church & Dwight. Brown-Forman is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Church & Dwight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brown-Forman pays an annual dividend of $0.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Church & Dwight pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Brown-Forman pays out 43.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Church & Dwight pays out 37.2% 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.
Brown-Forman has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Church & Dwight has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Church & Dwight beats Brown-Forman on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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