THS vs. POST, LANC, FLO, JJSF, CALM, TR, JBSS, BGS, HAIN, 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), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), and Calavo Growers (CVGW). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Post (NYSE:POST) and TreeHouse Foods (NYSE:THS) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
94.9% of Post shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of TreeHouse Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of Post shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of TreeHouse Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Post presently has a consensus price target of $113.67, indicating a potential upside of 6.66%. TreeHouse Foods has a consensus price target of $38.40, indicating a potential upside of 5.76%. Given TreeHouse Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Post is more favorable than TreeHouse Foods.
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 received 70 more outperform votes than Post when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.58% of users gave Post an outperform vote while only 65.73% of users gave TreeHouse Foods an outperform vote.
Post has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TreeHouse Foods has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Post had 43 more articles in the media than TreeHouse Foods. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for Post and 2 mentions for TreeHouse Foods. Post's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat TreeHouse Foods' score of -0.26 indicating that TreeHouse Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Post has a net margin of 4.38% compared to Post's net margin of 0.76%. TreeHouse Foods' return on equity of 10.93% beat Post's return on equity.
Summary
Post beats TreeHouse Foods on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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