SYY vs. ANDE, CHEF, UNFI, SPTN, DPZ, USFD, HFFG, RAVE, CUEN, and WTER
Should you be buying Sysco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sysco include Andersons (ANDE), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), United Natural Foods (UNFI), SpartanNash (SPTN), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), US Foods (USFD), HF Foods Group (HFFG), Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE), Cuentas (CUEN), and Alkaline Water (WTER).
Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE) and Sysco (NYSE:SYY) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and earnings.
Andersons has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sysco has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sysco had 4 more articles in the media than Andersons. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Sysco and 9 mentions for Andersons. Andersons' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Sysco's score of 0.44 indicating that Sysco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
87.1% of Andersons shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Sysco shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Andersons shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Sysco shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sysco has higher revenue and earnings than Andersons. Andersons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sysco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Andersons pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Sysco pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Andersons pays out 21.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sysco pays out 49.8% 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. Andersons has raised its dividend for 26 consecutive years and Sysco has raised its dividend for 56 consecutive years. Sysco is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Sysco has a net margin of 2.66% compared to Sysco's net margin of 0.89%. Andersons' return on equity of 99.88% beat Sysco's return on equity.
Andersons presently has a consensus target price of $62.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.68%. Sysco has a consensus target price of $85.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.68%. Given Andersons' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sysco is more favorable than Andersons.
Sysco received 200 more outperform votes than Andersons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.07% of users gave Sysco an outperform vote while only 56.71% of users gave Andersons an outperform vote.
Summary
Sysco beats Andersons on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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