MFI vs. PBH, JWEL, SOY, CLR, HLF, BABY, TPK, BU, SWP, and MYLK
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), Clearwater Seafoods Incorporated (CLR.TO) (CLR), High Liner Foods (HLF), Else Nutrition (BABY), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (TPK), Burcon NutraScience (BU), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP), and Planting Hope (MYLK). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods" industry.
Maple Leaf Foods (TSE:MFI) and Premium Brands (TSE:PBH) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Maple Leaf Foods has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premium Brands has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Premium Brands has a net margin of 1.50% compared to Maple Leaf Foods' net margin of -0.32%. Premium Brands' return on equity of 5.37% beat Maple Leaf Foods' return on equity.
Maple Leaf Foods currently has a consensus target price of C$30.07, suggesting a potential upside of 33.06%. Premium Brands has a consensus target price of C$113.50, suggesting a potential upside of 26.96%. Given Maple Leaf Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Maple Leaf Foods is more favorable than Premium Brands.
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.
24.8% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.2% of Premium Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.1% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Premium Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Maple Leaf Foods and Maple Leaf Foods both had 1 articles in the media. Maple Leaf Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Premium Brands' score of 0.37 indicating that Maple Leaf Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Maple Leaf Foods pays an annual dividend of C$0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Premium Brands pays an annual dividend of C$3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Maple Leaf Foods pays out -676.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Premium Brands pays out 159.6% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Maple Leaf Foods received 121 more outperform votes than Premium Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.21% of users gave Maple Leaf Foods an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Premium Brands an outperform vote.
Summary
Premium Brands beats Maple Leaf Foods on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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