HFG vs. BAKK, GNC, PFD, CWK, TATE, CCR, BAG, MPE, PZC, and NICL
Should you be buying Hilton Food Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hilton Food Group include Bakkavor Group (BAKK), Greencore Group (GNC), Premier Foods (PFD), Cranswick (CWK), Tate & Lyle (TATE), C&C Group (CCR), A.G. BARR (BAG), M.P. Evans Group (MPE), PZ Cussons (PZC), and Nichols (NICL). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Bakkavor Group (LON:BAKK) and Hilton Food Group (LON:HFG) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Bakkavor Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Hilton Food Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. 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. Hilton Food Group pays out 8,000.0% 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.
Hilton Food Group has a consensus target price of GBX 865, indicating a potential downside of 4.74%. Given Bakkavor Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hilton Food Group is more favorable than Bakkavor Group.
Bakkavor Group has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hilton Food Group has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bakkavor Group and Bakkavor Group both had 2 articles in the media. Hilton Food Group's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Bakkavor Group's score of 0.05 indicating that Bakkavor Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bakkavor Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hilton Food Group. Bakkavor Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hilton Food Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
47.0% of Bakkavor Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.6% of Hilton Food Group shares are held by institutional investors. 49.7% of Bakkavor Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Hilton Food Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bakkavor Group has a net margin of 2.45% compared to Bakkavor Group's net margin of 0.91%. Bakkavor Group's return on equity of 12.12% beat Hilton Food Group's return on equity.
Hilton Food Group received 302 more outperform votes than Bakkavor Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.65% of users gave Hilton Food Group an outperform vote while only 65.05% of users gave Bakkavor Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Hilton Food Group beats Bakkavor Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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