PBH vs. SAP, MFI, JWEL, SOY, CLR, HLF, BABY, TPK, BU, and SWP
Should you be buying Premium Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premium Brands include Saputo (SAP), Maple Leaf Foods (MFI), 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), and Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods" industry.
Premium Brands (TSE:PBH) and Saputo (TSE:SAP) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Premium Brands has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Saputo has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Saputo received 23 more outperform votes than Premium Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.86% of users gave Saputo an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Premium Brands an outperform vote.
Premium Brands pays an annual dividend of C$3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Saputo pays an annual dividend of C$0.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. 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. Saputo pays out 94.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Saputo has higher revenue and earnings than Premium Brands. Saputo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Premium Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
43.2% of Premium Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.9% of Saputo shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Premium Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 42.1% of Saputo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Saputo has a net margin of 1.92% compared to Premium Brands' net margin of 1.50%. Premium Brands' return on equity of 5.37% beat Saputo's return on equity.
Premium Brands currently has a consensus target price of C$113.50, suggesting a potential upside of 26.96%. Saputo has a consensus target price of C$33.81, suggesting a potential upside of 22.60%. Given Premium Brands' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Premium Brands is more favorable than Saputo.
In the previous week, Saputo had 3 more articles in the media than Premium Brands. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Saputo and 1 mentions for Premium Brands. Saputo's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Premium Brands' score of 0.37 indicating that Saputo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Saputo beats Premium Brands on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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