USFD vs. TEL, FERG, WSO.B, PFGC, CNM, SITE, INGM, AVT, REZI, and GMS
Should you be buying US Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of US Foods include TE Connectivity (TEL), Ferguson (FERG), Watsco (WSO.B), Performance Food Group (PFGC), Core & Main (CNM), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Ingram Micro (INGM), Avnet (AVT), Resideo Technologies (REZI), and GMS (GMS). These companies are all part of the "wholesale" industry.
US Foods vs.
US Foods (NYSE:USFD) and TE Connectivity (NYSE:TEL) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and risk.
US Foods presently has a consensus price target of $67.42, indicating a potential downside of 1.45%. TE Connectivity has a consensus price target of $160.70, indicating a potential upside of 9.85%. Given TE Connectivity's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe TE Connectivity is more favorable than US Foods.
TE Connectivity has lower revenue, but higher earnings than US Foods. TE Connectivity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than US Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
US Foods has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TE Connectivity has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TE Connectivity had 1 more articles in the media than US Foods. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for TE Connectivity and 15 mentions for US Foods. TE Connectivity's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat US Foods' score of 0.68 indicating that TE Connectivity is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
98.8% of US Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.4% of TE Connectivity shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of US Foods shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of TE Connectivity shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
TE Connectivity has a net margin of 20.15% compared to US Foods' net margin of 1.54%. TE Connectivity's return on equity of 18.48% beat US Foods' return on equity.
TE Connectivity received 209 more outperform votes than US Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.70% of users gave TE Connectivity an outperform vote while only 64.53% of users gave US Foods an outperform vote.
Summary
TE Connectivity beats US Foods on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:USFD) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
