CAG vs. HSY, GIS, TSN, K, MKC, HRL, CPB, SJM, PPC, and POST
Should you be buying Conagra Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conagra Brands include Hershey (HSY), General Mills (GIS), Tyson Foods (TSN), Kellanova (K), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Hormel Foods (HRL), Campbell Soup (CPB), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), and Post (POST). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Conagra Brands (NYSE:CAG) and Hershey (NYSE:HSY) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
Conagra Brands currently has a consensus price target of $33.14, suggesting a potential upside of 14.09%. Hershey has a consensus price target of $213.06, suggesting a potential upside of 10.51%. Given Conagra Brands' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Conagra Brands is more favorable than Hershey.
Conagra Brands has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hershey has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
83.8% of Conagra Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.0% of Hershey shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Conagra Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hershey shares are owned 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.
Conagra Brands pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Hershey pays an annual dividend of $5.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Conagra Brands pays out 70.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hershey pays out 54.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Hershey has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Conagra Brands. Conagra Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hershey, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hershey received 11 more outperform votes than Conagra Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.96% of users gave Conagra Brands an outperform vote while only 53.17% of users gave Hershey an outperform vote.
Hershey has a net margin of 18.13% compared to Conagra Brands' net margin of 7.86%. Hershey's return on equity of 50.15% beat Conagra Brands' return on equity.
In the previous week, Hershey had 11 more articles in the media than Conagra Brands. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Hershey and 15 mentions for Conagra Brands. Conagra Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Hershey's score of 0.53 indicating that Conagra Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Hershey beats Conagra Brands on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CAG 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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