TATE vs. CWK, PFD, HFG, BAKK, GRG, BVIC, OCDO, FEVR, BME, and SBRY
Should you be buying Tate & Lyle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tate & Lyle include Cranswick (CWK), Premier Foods (PFD), Hilton Food Group (HFG), Bakkavor Group (BAKK), Greggs (GRG), Britvic (BVIC), Ocado Group (OCDO), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), B&M European Value Retail (BME), and J Sainsbury (SBRY). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Cranswick (LON:CWK) and Tate & Lyle (LON:TATE) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
In the previous week, Tate & Lyle had 3 more articles in the media than Cranswick. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Tate & Lyle and 1 mentions for Cranswick. Cranswick's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Tate & Lyle's score of 0.00 indicating that Tate & Lyle is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tate & Lyle has a net margin of 9.72% compared to Tate & Lyle's net margin of 5.14%. Tate & Lyle's return on equity of 15.14% beat Cranswick's return on equity.
Tate & Lyle has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cranswick. Tate & Lyle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cranswick, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cranswick pays an annual dividend of GBX 82 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Tate & Lyle pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Cranswick pays out 3,489.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Tate & Lyle pays out 4,418.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Cranswick presently has a consensus target price of GBX 4,405.25, indicating a potential upside of 2.69%. Tate & Lyle has a consensus target price of GBX 858.33, indicating a potential upside of 35.38%. Given Cranswick's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tate & Lyle is more favorable than Cranswick.
Cranswick has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tate & Lyle has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
76.8% of Cranswick shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.2% of Tate & Lyle shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of Cranswick shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Tate & Lyle shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tate & Lyle received 146 more outperform votes than Cranswick when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.85% of users gave Cranswick an outperform vote while only 59.98% of users gave Tate & Lyle an outperform vote.
Summary
Cranswick beats Tate & Lyle on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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