GNC vs. BAKK, HFG, PFD, CWK, BAG, CCR, MPE, PZC, NICL, and W7L
Should you be buying Greencore Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greencore Group include Bakkavor Group (BAKK), Hilton Food Group (HFG), Premier Foods (PFD), Cranswick (CWK), A.G. BARR (BAG), C&C Group (CCR), M.P. Evans Group (MPE), PZ Cussons (PZC), Nichols (NICL), and Warpaint London (W7L). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Greencore Group (LON:GNC) and Bakkavor Group (LON:BAKK) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
Bakkavor Group has higher revenue and earnings than Greencore Group. Bakkavor Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greencore Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bakkavor Group has a net margin of 2.45% compared to Greencore Group's net margin of 1.88%. Bakkavor Group's return on equity of 8.80% beat Greencore Group's return on equity.
Greencore Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Bakkavor Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Greencore Group pays out 8,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bakkavor Group pays out 7,777.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bakkavor Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
51.4% of Greencore Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.0% of Bakkavor Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Greencore Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 49.7% of Bakkavor Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Greencore Group received 507 more outperform votes than Bakkavor Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.34% of users gave Greencore Group an outperform vote while only 65.05% of users gave Bakkavor Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Bakkavor Group had 2 more articles in the media than Greencore Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Bakkavor Group and 1 mentions for Greencore Group. Bakkavor Group's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Greencore Group's score of 0.21 indicating that Bakkavor Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Greencore Group has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bakkavor Group has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bakkavor Group beats Greencore Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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