CTVA vs. ADM, SYY, STZ, KDP, ABEV, KMB, KHC, KVUE, BF.B, and GIS
Should you be buying Corteva stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Corteva include Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Sysco (SYY), Constellation Brands (STZ), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Ambev (ABEV), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Kraft Heinz (KHC), Kenvue (KVUE), Brown-Forman (BF.B), and General Mills (GIS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Corteva vs.
Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) and Corteva (NYSE:CTVA) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends and valuation.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Corteva has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Archer-Daniels-Midland currently has a consensus price target of $100.33, suggesting a potential upside of 40.78%. Corteva has a consensus price target of $72.44, suggesting a potential upside of 28.89%. Given Archer-Daniels-Midland's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Archer-Daniels-Midland is more favorable than Corteva.
Archer-Daniels-Midland pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Corteva pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Archer-Daniels-Midland pays out 22.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Corteva pays out 37.0% 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. Archer-Daniels-Midland has raised its dividend for 51 consecutive years and Corteva has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Archer-Daniels-Midland is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Corteva has a net margin of 6.64% compared to Archer-Daniels-Midland's net margin of 4.36%. Archer-Daniels-Midland's return on equity of 18.39% beat Corteva's return on equity.
Archer-Daniels-Midland received 529 more outperform votes than Corteva when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.23% of users gave Archer-Daniels-Midland an outperform vote while only 56.63% of users gave Corteva an outperform vote.
78.2% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.5% of Corteva shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Corteva shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Corteva had 9 more articles in the media than Archer-Daniels-Midland. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Corteva and 8 mentions for Archer-Daniels-Midland. Corteva's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Archer-Daniels-Midland's score of -0.04 indicating that Corteva is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has higher revenue and earnings than Corteva. Archer-Daniels-Midland is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Corteva, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Archer-Daniels-Midland beats Corteva on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CTVA and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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