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).
US Foods (NYSE:USFD) and Sysco (NYSE:SYY) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, Sysco had 13 more articles in the media than US Foods. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Sysco and 5 mentions for US Foods. US Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Sysco's score of 0.46 indicating that US Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
US Foods has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sysco has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
US Foods presently has a consensus target price of $60.56, indicating a potential upside of 15.61%. Sysco has a consensus target price of $85.10, indicating a potential upside of 18.77%. Given Sysco's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sysco is more favorable than US Foods.
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.
Sysco has a net margin of 2.66% compared to US Foods' net margin of 1.41%. Sysco's return on equity of 99.88% beat US Foods' return on equity.
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.
98.8% of US Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Sysco shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of US Foods shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Sysco shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Sysco beats US Foods on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding USFD and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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