PFGC vs. WING, BURL, CASY, PAG, TXRH, BBWI, FBIN, TPR, MTCH, and FIVE
Should you be buying Performance Food Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Performance Food Group include Wingstop (WING), Burlington Stores (BURL), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Penske Automotive Group (PAG), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Bath & Body Works (BBWI), Fortune Brands Innovations (FBIN), Tapestry (TPR), Match Group (MTCH), and Five Below (FIVE). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) and Performance Food Group (NYSE:PFGC) are both large-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Wingstop has a net margin of 15.25% compared to Wingstop's net margin of 0.74%. Wingstop's return on equity of 16.77% beat Performance Food Group's return on equity.
Wingstop received 149 more outperform votes than Performance Food Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.03% of users gave Performance Food Group an outperform vote while only 61.15% of users gave Wingstop an outperform vote.
Wingstop has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Performance Food Group has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Wingstop had 6 more articles in the media than Performance Food Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Wingstop and 7 mentions for Performance Food Group. Wingstop's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Performance Food Group's score of 0.59 indicating that Performance Food Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wingstop presently has a consensus price target of $290.83, suggesting a potential downside of 21.38%. Performance Food Group has a consensus price target of $81.25, suggesting a potential upside of 17.87%. Given Wingstop's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Performance Food Group is more favorable than Wingstop.
Performance Food Group has higher revenue and earnings than Wingstop. Performance Food Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wingstop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
96.9% of Performance Food Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Wingstop shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Performance Food Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Performance Food Group beats Wingstop on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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