PFD vs. UTG, BME, ETO, GLO, BRW, BOE, TRY, USA, NUM, and JPS
Should you be buying Premier Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premier Foods include Unite Group (UTG), B&M European Value Retail (BME), Entertainment One (ETO), ContourGlobal (GLO), Brewin Dolphin (BRW), Boeing (BOE), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Numis (NUM), and JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income plc (JPS.L) (JPS). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
Premier Foods vs.
Premier Foods (LON:PFD) and Unite Group (LON:UTG) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
Unite Group received 86 more outperform votes than Premier Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.18% of users gave Premier Foods an outperform vote while only 65.91% of users gave Unite Group an outperform vote.
Premier Foods has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unite Group has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Unite Group had 5 more articles in the media than Premier Foods. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Unite Group and 0 mentions for Premier Foods. Unite Group's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Premier Foods' score of 0.00 indicating that Unite Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Premier Foods presently has a consensus price target of GBX 210, indicating a potential upside of 15.64%. Unite Group has a consensus price target of GBX 1,102.33, indicating a potential upside of 33.70%. Given Unite Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Unite Group is more favorable than Premier Foods.
Premier Foods pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Unite Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 36 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Premier Foods pays out 1,538.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Unite Group pays out 5,901.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Unite Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Premier Foods. Unite Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Premier Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
48.7% of Premier Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.1% of Unite Group shares are held by institutional investors. 25.2% of Premier Foods shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Unite Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Unite Group has a net margin of 76.10% compared to Premier Foods' net margin of 9.89%. Premier Foods' return on equity of 8.23% beat Unite Group's return on equity.
Summary
Unite Group beats Premier Foods on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PFD) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
