THS vs. POST, LANC, FLO, CALM, JJSF, TR, JBSS, HAIN, BGS, and CVGW
Should you be buying TreeHouse Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TreeHouse Foods include Post (POST), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), B&G Foods (BGS), and Calavo Growers (CVGW). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
TreeHouse Foods (NYSE:THS) and Post (NYSE:POST) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
99.8% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Post shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.7% of Post shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Post had 46 more articles in the media than TreeHouse Foods. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for Post and 3 mentions for TreeHouse Foods. TreeHouse Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Post's score of 0.02 indicating that TreeHouse Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Post has higher revenue and earnings than TreeHouse Foods. Post is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TreeHouse Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TreeHouse Foods currently has a consensus target price of $38.17, indicating a potential downside of 1.48%. Post has a consensus target price of $113.67, indicating a potential upside of 4.31%. Given Post's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Post is more favorable than TreeHouse Foods.
Post has a net margin of 4.38% compared to TreeHouse Foods' net margin of 0.76%. Post's return on equity of 10.93% beat TreeHouse Foods' return on equity.
TreeHouse Foods has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Post has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TreeHouse Foods received 70 more outperform votes than Post when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.58% of users gave Post an outperform vote while only 65.64% of users gave TreeHouse Foods an outperform vote.
Summary
Post beats TreeHouse Foods on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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