ABEV vs. SYY, KMB, TAP-A, TAP.A, MGPI, STKL, YSG, IH, DTCK, and METX
Should you be buying Ambev stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ambev include Sysco (SYY), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP-A), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP.A), MGP Ingredients (MGPI), SunOpta (STKL), Yatsen (YSG), iHuman (IH), Davis Commodities (DTCK), and BTC Digital (METX).
Ambev (NYSE:ABEV) and Sysco (NYSE:SYY) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
8.1% of Ambev shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Sysco shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Sysco shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ambev has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sysco. Ambev is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sysco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ambev currently has a consensus price target of $3.20, indicating a potential upside of 32.78%. Sysco has a consensus price target of $84.56, indicating a potential upside of 13.88%. Given Ambev's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ambev is more favorable than Sysco.
Ambev has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sysco has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sysco had 36 more articles in the media than Ambev. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Sysco and 4 mentions for Ambev. Sysco's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Ambev's score of 0.05 indicating that Sysco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ambev has a net margin of 18.19% compared to Sysco's net margin of 2.66%. Sysco's return on equity of 99.88% beat Ambev's return on equity.
Sysco received 119 more outperform votes than Ambev when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.52% of users gave Ambev an outperform vote while only 57.86% of users gave Sysco an outperform vote.
Ambev pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. Sysco pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Ambev pays out 144.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sysco pays out 49.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Sysco beats Ambev on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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