MKC vs. HRL, CELH, TSN, CLX, IFF, CAG, CHD, CPB, USFD, and LW
Should you be buying McCormick & Company, Incorporated stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of McCormick & Company, Incorporated include Hormel Foods (HRL), Celsius (CELH), Tyson Foods (TSN), Clorox (CLX), International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Conagra Brands (CAG), Church & Dwight (CHD), Campbell Soup (CPB), US Foods (USFD), and Lamb Weston (LW). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Hormel Foods (NYSE:HRL) and McCormick & Company, Incorporated (NYSE:MKC) 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 analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Hormel Foods has a beta of 0.28, meaning that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McCormick & Company, Incorporated has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, McCormick & Company, Incorporated had 1 more articles in the media than Hormel Foods. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for McCormick & Company, Incorporated and 10 mentions for Hormel Foods. McCormick & Company, Incorporated's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Hormel Foods' score of 1.11 indicating that Hormel Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated has a net margin of 10.56% compared to McCormick & Company, Incorporated's net margin of 6.55%. Hormel Foods' return on equity of 14.45% beat McCormick & Company, Incorporated's return on equity.
41.0% of Hormel Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.7% of McCormick & Company, Incorporated shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Hormel Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.9% of McCormick & Company, Incorporated shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hormel Foods has higher revenue and earnings than McCormick & Company, Incorporated. Hormel Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McCormick & Company, Incorporated, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hormel Foods pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. McCormick & Company, Incorporated pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Hormel Foods pays out 77.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. McCormick & Company, Incorporated pays out 64.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hormel Foods has raised its dividend for 59 consecutive years and McCormick & Company, Incorporated has raised its dividend for 37 consecutive years. Hormel Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Hormel Foods presently has a consensus target price of $31.00, suggesting a potential downside of 14.62%. McCormick & Company, Incorporated has a consensus target price of $77.88, suggesting a potential upside of 5.22%. Given Hormel Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe McCormick & Company, Incorporated is more favorable than Hormel Foods.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated received 9 more outperform votes than Hormel Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.99% of users gave McCormick & Company, Incorporated an outperform vote while only 57.73% of users gave Hormel Foods an outperform vote.
Summary
McCormick & Company, Incorporated beats Hormel Foods on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding MKC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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