TSN vs. HSY, GIS, K, MKC, HRL, CAG, CPB, SJM, PPC, and POST
Should you be buying Tyson Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tyson Foods include Hershey (HSY), General Mills (GIS), Kellanova (K), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Hormel Foods (HRL), Conagra Brands (CAG), Campbell Soup (CPB), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), and Post (POST). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Hershey (NYSE:HSY) and Tyson Foods (NYSE:TSN) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Hershey pays an annual dividend of $5.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Tyson Foods pays an annual dividend of $1.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Hershey pays out 54.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tyson Foods pays out -110.1% 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. Hershey has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years and Tyson Foods has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Tyson Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hershey presently has a consensus price target of $210.56, suggesting a potential upside of 6.43%. Tyson Foods has a consensus price target of $60.22, suggesting a potential upside of 5.19%. Given Tyson Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Hershey is more favorable than Tyson Foods.
In the previous week, Hershey had 10 more articles in the media than Tyson Foods. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Hershey and 11 mentions for Tyson Foods. Hershey's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Tyson Foods' score of 0.39 indicating that Tyson Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tyson Foods received 163 more outperform votes than Hershey when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.41% of users gave Tyson Foods an outperform vote while only 53.22% of users gave Hershey an outperform vote.
Hershey has a net margin of 18.13% compared to Hershey's net margin of -1.16%. Tyson Foods' return on equity of 50.15% beat Hershey's return on equity.
Hershey has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tyson Foods has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hershey has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tyson Foods. Tyson Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hershey, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
58.0% of Hershey shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.0% of Tyson Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hershey shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Tyson Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Hershey beats Tyson Foods on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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