SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE) Competitors

SiteOne Landscape Supply (NYSE:SITE) and US Foods (NYSE:USFD) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of SITE or USFD?

98.8% of US Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of SiteOne Landscape Supply shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of US Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more risk and volatility, SITE or USFD?

SiteOne Landscape Supply has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, US Foods has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SITE or USFD?

US Foods received 172 more outperform votes than SiteOne Landscape Supply when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.24% of users gave US Foods an outperform vote while only 53.36% of users gave SiteOne Landscape Supply an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
SiteOne Landscape Supply	Outperform Votes 286 53.36%	Underperform Votes 250 46.64%
US Foods	Outperform Votes 458 65.24%	Underperform Votes 244 34.76%

Do analysts prefer SITE or USFD?

SiteOne Landscape Supply currently has a consensus price target of $145.70, indicating a potential upside of 15.79%. US Foods has a consensus price target of $76.75, indicating a potential downside of 0.24%. Given SiteOne Landscape Supply's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe SiteOne Landscape Supply is more favorable than US Foods.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SiteOne Landscape Supply	1 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.30
US Foods	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.08

Is SITE or USFD more profitable?

SiteOne Landscape Supply has a net margin of 2.72% compared to US Foods' net margin of 1.30%. US Foods' return on equity of 15.03% beat SiteOne Landscape Supply's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SiteOne Landscape Supply	2.72%	7.93%	3.98%
US Foods	1.30%	15.03%	5.28%

Does the media prefer SITE or USFD?

In the previous week, US Foods had 6 more articles in the media than SiteOne Landscape Supply. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for US Foods and 3 mentions for SiteOne Landscape Supply. US Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat SiteOne Landscape Supply's score of 1.23 indicating that US Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
SiteOne Landscape Supply	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
US Foods	7 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has better earnings and valuation, SITE or USFD?

US Foods has higher revenue and earnings than SiteOne Landscape Supply. US Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SiteOne Landscape Supply, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SiteOne Landscape Supply	$4.58B	1.23	$123.60M	$2.51	50.13
US Foods	$38.28B	0.46	$494M	$2.18	35.29

Summary

US Foods beats SiteOne Landscape Supply on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.