SJM vs. USFD, LW, ACI, CPB, TAP, COTY, SCI, CAG, ELF, and PPC
Should you be buying J. M. Smucker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J. M. Smucker include US Foods (USFD), Lamb Weston (LW), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Campbell Soup (CPB), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP), Coty (COTY), Service Co. International (SCI), Conagra Brands (CAG), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), and Pilgrim's Pride (PPC). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
US Foods (NYSE:USFD) and J. M. Smucker (NYSE:SJM) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
US Foods has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J. M. Smucker has a beta of 0.21, suggesting that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.
US Foods has a net margin of 1.42% compared to US Foods' net margin of -1.24%. US Foods' return on equity of 14.29% beat J. M. Smucker's return on equity.
J. M. Smucker received 262 more outperform votes than US Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.62% of users gave US Foods an outperform vote while only 62.33% of users gave J. M. Smucker an outperform vote.
US Foods currently has a consensus price target of $54.92, indicating a potential upside of 8.92%. J. M. Smucker has a consensus price target of $137.47, indicating a potential upside of 19.35%. Given US Foods' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe J. M. Smucker is more favorable than US Foods.
In the previous week, US Foods had 1 more articles in the media than J. M. Smucker. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for US Foods and 7 mentions for J. M. Smucker. US Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat J. M. Smucker's score of 0.92 indicating that J. M. Smucker is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
US Foods has higher revenue and earnings than J. M. Smucker. J. M. Smucker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than US Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.8% of US Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of J. M. Smucker shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of US Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of J. M. Smucker shares are owned 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.
Summary
US Foods beats J. M. Smucker on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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