MFI vs. PBH, JWEL, SOY, SAP, PRMW, NWC, EMP.A, HLF, SWP, and BU
Should you be buying Maple Leaf Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maple Leaf Foods include Premium Brands (PBH), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), SunOpta (SOY), Saputo (SAP), Primo Water (PRMW), North West (NWC), Empire (EMP.A), High Liner Foods (HLF), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP), and Burcon NutraScience (BU). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Premium Brands (TSE:PBH) and Maple Leaf Foods (TSE:MFI) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
Premium Brands has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Maple Leaf Foods has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Premium Brands has a net margin of 1.50% compared to Premium Brands' net margin of -2.57%. Maple Leaf Foods' return on equity of 5.26% beat Premium Brands' return on equity.
In the previous week, Maple Leaf Foods had 4 more articles in the media than Premium Brands. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Maple Leaf Foods and 4 mentions for Premium Brands. Maple Leaf Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Premium Brands' score of 0.54 indicating that Premium Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
43.4% of Premium Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.7% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Premium Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 40.1% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Premium Brands pays an annual dividend of C$3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Maple Leaf Foods pays an annual dividend of C$0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Premium Brands pays out 161.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Maple Leaf Foods pays out -85.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Maple Leaf Foods received 122 more outperform votes than Premium Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.12% of users gave Maple Leaf Foods an outperform vote while only 55.75% of users gave Premium Brands an outperform vote.
Premium Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Maple Leaf Foods. Maple Leaf Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Premium Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Premium Brands currently has a consensus price target of C$111.60, suggesting a potential upside of 24.92%. Maple Leaf Foods has a consensus price target of C$30.50, suggesting a potential upside of 28.48%. Given Premium Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Maple Leaf Foods is more favorable than Premium Brands.
Summary
Premium Brands beats Maple Leaf Foods on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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