PPC vs. TSN, ARMK, ELF, COKE, INGR, NYT, COTY, DAR, SCI, and CHWY
Should you be buying Pilgrim's Pride stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pilgrim's Pride include Tyson Foods (TSN), Aramark (ARMK), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Ingredion (INGR), New York Times (NYT), Coty (COTY), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Service Co. International (SCI), and Chewy (CHWY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Pilgrim's Pride (NASDAQ:PPC) and Tyson Foods (NYSE:TSN) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
Pilgrim's Pride has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tyson Foods has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Tyson Foods received 420 more outperform votes than Pilgrim's Pride when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.67% of users gave Tyson Foods an outperform vote while only 60.38% of users gave Pilgrim's Pride an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Pilgrim's Pride had 5 more articles in the media than Tyson Foods. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Pilgrim's Pride and 11 mentions for Tyson Foods. Pilgrim's Pride's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Tyson Foods' score of 0.51 indicating that Pilgrim's Pride is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pilgrim's Pride currently has a consensus price target of $37.25, suggesting a potential upside of 2.67%. Tyson Foods has a consensus price target of $58.80, suggesting a potential downside of 5.13%. Given Pilgrim's Pride's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Pilgrim's Pride is more favorable than Tyson Foods.
16.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.0% of Tyson Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 82.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Tyson Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Pilgrim's Pride has a net margin of 2.80% compared to Tyson Foods' net margin of -1.62%. Pilgrim's Pride's return on equity of 17.80% beat Tyson Foods' return on equity.
Pilgrim's Pride has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tyson Foods. Tyson Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pilgrim's Pride, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Pilgrim's Pride beats Tyson Foods on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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