SJM vs. HSY, GIS, TSN, K, MKC, HRL, CAG, CPB, PPC, and POST
Should you be buying J. M. Smucker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J. M. Smucker include Hershey (HSY), General Mills (GIS), Tyson Foods (TSN), Kellanova (K), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Hormel Foods (HRL), Conagra Brands (CAG), Campbell Soup (CPB), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), and Post (POST). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Hershey (NYSE:HSY) and J. M. Smucker (NYSE:SJM) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Hershey presently has a consensus price target of $210.56, indicating a potential upside of 8.99%. J. M. Smucker has a consensus price target of $136.07, indicating a potential upside of 26.05%. Given Hershey's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe J. M. Smucker is more favorable than Hershey.
58.0% of Hershey shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of J. M. Smucker shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hershey shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of J. M. Smucker shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
J. M. Smucker received 76 more outperform votes than Hershey when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.27% of users gave J. M. Smucker an outperform vote while only 53.22% of users gave Hershey an outperform vote.
Hershey has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J. M. Smucker has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hershey pays an annual dividend of $5.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. J. M. Smucker pays an annual dividend of $4.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Hershey pays out 54.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J. M. Smucker pays out -481.8% 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 raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years and J. M. Smucker has raised its dividend for 26 consecutive years. J. M. Smucker is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Hershey has higher revenue and earnings than J. M. Smucker. J. M. Smucker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hershey, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hershey has a net margin of 18.13% compared to Hershey's net margin of -1.24%. J. M. Smucker's return on equity of 50.15% beat Hershey's return on equity.
In the previous week, Hershey had 16 more articles in the media than J. M. Smucker. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Hershey and 11 mentions for J. M. Smucker. Hershey's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat J. M. Smucker's score of 0.43 indicating that J. M. Smucker is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Hershey and J. M. Smucker tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SJM 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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