SAP vs. PBH, MFI, JWEL, SOY, CLR, HLF, BABY, TPK, BU, and SWP
Should you be buying Saputo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saputo include Premium Brands (PBH), 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.
Saputo (TSE:SAP) and Premium Brands (TSE:PBH) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
22.9% of Saputo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.2% of Premium Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 42.1% of Saputo shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Premium Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Saputo had 5 more articles in the media than Premium Brands. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Saputo and 1 mentions for Premium Brands. Premium Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Saputo's score of 0.31 indicating that Premium Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Saputo pays an annual dividend of C$0.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Premium Brands pays an annual dividend of C$3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. 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. 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 currently has a consensus target price of C$33.81, indicating a potential upside of 24.68%. Premium Brands has a consensus target price of C$113.50, indicating a potential upside of 29.08%. Given Premium Brands' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Premium Brands is more favorable than Saputo.
Saputo has a beta of 0.32, indicating that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premium Brands has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to 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.
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.
Summary
Saputo beats Premium Brands on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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