TSN vs. PPC, CELH, MKC, BF.B, HRL, IFF, CLX, CHD, CAG, and CPB
Should you be buying Tyson Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tyson Foods include Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Celsius (CELH), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Brown-Forman (BF.B), Hormel Foods (HRL), International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Clorox (CLX), Church & Dwight (CHD), Conagra Brands (CAG), and Campbell Soup (CPB). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Tyson Foods (NYSE:TSN) and Pilgrim's Pride (NASDAQ:PPC) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Pilgrim's Pride has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tyson Foods. Tyson Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pilgrim's Pride, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.0% of Tyson Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Tyson Foods shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 82.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Tyson Foods received 420 more outperform votes than Pilgrim's Pride when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.46% of users gave Tyson Foods an outperform vote while only 60.45% of users gave Pilgrim's Pride an outperform vote.
Pilgrim's Pride has a net margin of 2.80% compared to Tyson Foods' net margin of -1.16%. Pilgrim's Pride's return on equity of 17.35% beat Tyson Foods' return on equity.
Tyson Foods currently has a consensus target price of $60.22, suggesting a potential downside of 0.05%. Pilgrim's Pride has a consensus target price of $37.25, suggesting a potential downside of 0.29%. Given Tyson Foods' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tyson Foods is more favorable than Pilgrim's Pride.
In the previous week, Tyson Foods had 8 more articles in the media than Pilgrim's Pride. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Tyson Foods and 5 mentions for Pilgrim's Pride. Pilgrim's Pride's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Tyson Foods' score of 0.99 indicating that Pilgrim's Pride is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tyson Foods has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pilgrim's Pride has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pilgrim's Pride beats Tyson Foods on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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