CTVA vs. HSY, SYY, KVUE, GIS, ABEV, KMB, CCEP, ADM, STZ, and EL
Should you be buying Corteva stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Corteva include Hershey (HSY), Sysco (SYY), Kenvue (KVUE), General Mills (GIS), Ambev (ABEV), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Constellation Brands (STZ), and Estée Lauder Companies (EL). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Corteva (NYSE:CTVA) and Hershey (NYSE:HSY) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Hershey received 467 more outperform votes than Corteva when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.14% of users gave Corteva an outperform vote while only 53.27% of users gave Hershey an outperform vote.
Corteva pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Hershey pays an annual dividend of $5.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Corteva pays out 62.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hershey pays out 60.6% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Corteva currently has a consensus target price of $63.29, suggesting a potential upside of 17.70%. Hershey has a consensus target price of $223.33, suggesting a potential upside of 21.75%. Given Hershey's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hershey is more favorable than Corteva.
Hershey has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Corteva. Hershey is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Corteva, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hershey has a net margin of 16.67% compared to Corteva's net margin of 4.27%. Hershey's return on equity of 51.79% beat Corteva's return on equity.
Corteva has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hershey has a beta of 0.34, meaning that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
81.5% of Corteva shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.0% of Hershey shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Corteva shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hershey shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Hershey had 3 more articles in the media than Corteva. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Hershey and 16 mentions for Corteva. Corteva's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Hershey's score of 0.31 indicating that Corteva is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Hershey beats Corteva on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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