ENR vs. THS, WLY, KLG, WLYB, TR, EPC, TBBB, MGPI, CCU, and HELE
Should you be buying Energizer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Energizer include TreeHouse Foods (THS), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), WK Kellogg (KLG), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), BBB Foods (TBBB), MGP Ingredients (MGPI), Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (CCU), and Helen of Troy (HELE). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Energizer (NYSE:ENR) and TreeHouse Foods (NYSE:THS) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.
TreeHouse Foods received 113 more outperform votes than Energizer when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave TreeHouse Foods an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Energizer an outperform vote.
93.7% of Energizer shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Energizer shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Energizer has a net margin of 3.21% compared to TreeHouse Foods' net margin of 1.51%. Energizer's return on equity of 123.29% beat TreeHouse Foods' return on equity.
Energizer presently has a consensus price target of $35.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.42%. TreeHouse Foods has a consensus price target of $46.67, suggesting a potential upside of 29.59%. Given TreeHouse Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe TreeHouse Foods is more favorable than Energizer.
Energizer has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TreeHouse Foods has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Energizer and Energizer both had 1 articles in the media. Energizer's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat TreeHouse Foods' score of 0.66 indicating that Energizer is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Energizer has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TreeHouse Foods. Energizer is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TreeHouse Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Energizer beats TreeHouse Foods on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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