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SYY vs. CHEF, IPAR, PPC, FLO, INGR, LW, MED, PFGC, UNFI, and USFD

Should you be buying Sysco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sysco include Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), Interparfums (IPAR), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Flowers Foods (FLO), Ingredion (INGR), Lamb Weston (LW), Medifast (MED), Performance Food Group (PFGC), United Natural Foods (UNFI), and US Foods (USFD).

Sysco vs. Its Competitors

Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) and Sysco (NYSE:SYY) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Sysco has higher revenue and earnings than Chefs' Warehouse. Sysco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chefs' Warehouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Chefs' Warehouse$3.79B0.72$55.48M$1.6042.14
Sysco$81.37B0.48$1.96B$3.7321.41

Chefs' Warehouse presently has a consensus target price of $70.40, suggesting a potential upside of 4.42%. Sysco has a consensus target price of $85.54, suggesting a potential upside of 7.10%. Given Sysco's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sysco is more favorable than Chefs' Warehouse.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Chefs' Warehouse
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Sysco
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71

91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Sysco shares are held by institutional investors. 11.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Sysco shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sysco has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Sysco had 23 more articles in the media than Chefs' Warehouse. MarketBeat recorded 50 mentions for Sysco and 27 mentions for Chefs' Warehouse. Sysco's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Chefs' Warehouse's score of 0.74 indicating that Sysco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Chefs' Warehouse
7 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Sysco
26 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Sysco has a net margin of 2.25% compared to Chefs' Warehouse's net margin of 1.76%. Sysco's return on equity of 109.52% beat Chefs' Warehouse's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Chefs' Warehouse1.76% 13.60% 3.90%
Sysco 2.25%109.52%8.37%

Summary

Sysco beats Chefs' Warehouse on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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SYY vs. The Competition

MetricSyscoFOOD IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$38.59B$8.29B$15.75B$20.69B
Dividend Yield2.70%3.51%3.20%3.67%
P/E Ratio21.4123.9318.5229.07
Price / Sales0.481.7145.8966.49
Price / Cash11.4312.4014.5022.84
Price / Book21.133.585.884.43
Net Income$1.96B$403.59M$690.35M$994.22M
7 Day Performance-0.47%-4.06%-5.09%-3.35%
1 Month Performance2.83%-2.60%-3.51%-2.06%
1 Year Performance4.12%-4.40%0.01%10.15%

Sysco Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SYY
Sysco
4.5953 of 5 stars
$79.87
+0.3%
$85.54
+7.1%
+5.4%$38.59B$81.37B21.4176,000Positive News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
CHEF
Chefs' Warehouse
1.8065 of 5 stars
$62.68
+0.7%
$67.40
+7.5%
+66.1%$2.55B$3.87B41.515,029News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
IPAR
Interparfums
4.3674 of 5 stars
$125.09
+3.3%
$162.00
+29.5%
-13.9%$4.02B$1.45B24.34530News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
PPC
Pilgrim's Pride
1.1967 of 5 stars
$47.65
-0.4%
$48.67
+2.1%
+13.6%$11.30B$17.98B9.4061,600Positive News
Earnings Report
FLO
Flowers Foods
4.5494 of 5 stars
$16.25
-0.1%
$19.00
+16.9%
-30.2%$3.43B$5.10B15.0510,200
INGR
Ingredion
4.6022 of 5 stars
$131.59
-1.1%
$151.40
+15.1%
+2.5%$8.46B$7.36B13.8811,200Trending News
Earnings Report
Gap Down
LW
Lamb Weston
4.2831 of 5 stars
$59.32
-2.5%
$67.40
+13.6%
-5.6%$8.26B$6.45B23.6310,100
MED
Medifast
3.5167 of 5 stars
$14.58
-2.1%
$16.50
+13.2%
-36.6%$160.23M$602.46M-22.43870News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
PFGC
Performance Food Group
3.9433 of 5 stars
$99.43
+0.6%
$100.31
+0.9%
+47.1%$15.52B$58.28B41.4337,000
UNFI
United Natural Foods
3.4717 of 5 stars
$28.50
+1.0%
$28.13
-1.3%
+83.3%$1.73B$32.24B-24.7828,333Positive News
Short Interest ↑
USFD
US Foods
4.0975 of 5 stars
$83.04
+0.9%
$77.42
-6.8%
+53.5%$19.21B$38.28B38.0930,000News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑

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