PFD vs. HFG, BAKK, GNC, CWK, TATE, FEVR, CCR, BAG, BVIC, and MPE
Should you be buying Premier Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premier Foods include Hilton Food Group (HFG), Bakkavor Group (BAKK), Greencore Group (GNC), Cranswick (CWK), Tate & Lyle (TATE), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), C&C Group (CCR), A.G. BARR (BAG), Britvic (BVIC), and M.P. Evans Group (MPE). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Premier Foods (LON:PFD) and Hilton Food Group (LON:HFG) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk and profitability.
49.0% of Premier Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.6% of Hilton Food Group shares are held by institutional investors. 25.3% of Premier Foods shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Hilton Food Group shares are held 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.
Premier Foods pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Hilton Food Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Premier Foods pays out 909.1% 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.
Hilton Food Group received 31 more outperform votes than Premier Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.65% of users gave Hilton Food Group an outperform vote while only 68.41% of users gave Premier Foods an outperform vote.
Premier Foods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hilton Food Group. Premier Foods 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.
Premier Foods has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hilton Food Group has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Premier Foods has a net margin of 9.09% compared to Hilton Food Group's net margin of 0.91%. Hilton Food Group's return on equity of 12.12% beat Premier Foods' return on equity.
In the previous week, Premier Foods had 3 more articles in the media than Hilton Food Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Premier Foods and 2 mentions for Hilton Food Group. Premier Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Hilton Food Group's score of 0.10 indicating that Premier Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Premier Foods presently has a consensus target price of GBX 192.50, suggesting a potential upside of 18.39%. Hilton Food Group has a consensus target price of GBX 865, suggesting a potential downside of 6.79%. Given Premier Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Premier Foods is more favorable than Hilton Food Group.
Summary
Premier Foods beats Hilton Food Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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