USFD vs. SYY, DPZ, HFFG, RAVE, CUEN, WTER, KDP, EL, STZ, and KMB
Should you be buying US Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of US Foods include Sysco (SYY), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), HF Foods Group (HFFG), Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE), Cuentas (CUEN), Alkaline Water (WTER), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Constellation Brands (STZ), and Kimberly-Clark (KMB).
Sysco (NYSE:SYY) and US Foods (NYSE:USFD) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Sysco has a net margin of 2.66% compared to Sysco's net margin of 1.41%. US Foods' return on equity of 99.88% beat Sysco's return on equity.
Sysco has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, US Foods has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
83.4% of Sysco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of US Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Sysco shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of US Foods shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sysco presently has a consensus price target of $85.10, indicating a potential upside of 16.86%. US Foods has a consensus price target of $60.56, indicating a potential upside of 14.62%. Given US Foods' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Sysco is more favorable than US Foods.
Sysco has higher revenue and earnings than US Foods. Sysco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than US Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sysco received 75 more outperform votes than US Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.90% of users gave US Foods an outperform vote while only 58.04% of users gave Sysco an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sysco had 11 more articles in the media than US Foods. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Sysco and 5 mentions for US Foods. Sysco's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat US Foods' score of 1.04 indicating that US Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sysco beats US Foods on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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