PRMW vs. PBH, EMP.A, MFI, NWC, JWEL, SOY, SAP, RSI, LAS.A, and HLF
Should you be buying Primo Water stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Primo Water include Premium Brands (PBH), Empire (EMP.A), Maple Leaf Foods (MFI), North West (NWC), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), SunOpta (SOY), Saputo (SAP), Rogers Sugar (RSI), Lassonde Industries (LAS.A), and High Liner Foods (HLF). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Premium Brands (TSE:PBH) and Primo Water (TSE:PRMW) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Premium Brands had 4 more articles in the media than Primo Water. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Premium Brands and 0 mentions for Primo Water. Primo Water's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Premium Brands'average media sentiment score.
Premium Brands pays an annual dividend of C$3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Primo Water pays an annual dividend of C$0.49 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. 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. Primo Water pays out 90.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Primo Water has a net margin of 13.44% compared to Primo Water's net margin of 1.50%. Primo Water's return on equity of 5.26% beat Premium Brands' return on equity.
Premium Brands presently has a consensus target price of C$111.60, suggesting a potential upside of 30.42%. Given Primo Water's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Premium Brands is more favorable than Primo Water.
Premium Brands has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Primo Water has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
43.4% of Premium Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Primo Water shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Premium Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Primo Water shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Premium Brands received 411 more outperform votes than Primo Water when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Primo Water an outperform vote while only 55.75% of users gave Premium Brands an outperform vote.
Premium Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Primo Water. Premium Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Primo Water, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Premium Brands beats Primo Water on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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