USFD vs. SYY, DPZ, HFFG, RAVE, CUEN, WTER, KDP, EL, STZ, and KMB
Should you be buying US Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of US Foods include Sysco (SYY), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), HF Foods Group (HFFG), Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE), Cuentas (CUEN), Alkaline Water (WTER), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Constellation Brands (STZ), and Kimberly-Clark (KMB).
US Foods (NYSE:USFD) and Sysco (NYSE:SYY) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
US Foods has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sysco has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
US Foods currently has a consensus price target of $60.56, indicating a potential upside of 14.84%. Sysco has a consensus price target of $85.10, indicating a potential upside of 19.07%. Given Sysco's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sysco is more favorable than US Foods.
Sysco has higher revenue and earnings than US Foods. Sysco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than US Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.8% of US Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Sysco shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of US Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Sysco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sysco received 75 more outperform votes than US Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.90% of users gave US Foods an outperform vote while only 58.04% of users gave Sysco an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sysco had 25 more articles in the media than US Foods. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Sysco and 4 mentions for US Foods. US Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Sysco's score of 0.44 indicating that US Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sysco has a net margin of 2.66% compared to US Foods' net margin of 1.41%. Sysco's return on equity of 99.88% beat US Foods' return on equity.
Summary
Sysco beats US Foods on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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