ARMK vs. COKE, INGR, CHWY, ELF, NYT, DAR, COTY, BROS, LANC, and FRPT
Should you be buying Aramark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aramark include Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Ingredion (INGR), Chewy (CHWY), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), New York Times (NYT), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Coty (COTY), Dutch Bros (BROS), Lancaster Colony (LANC), and Freshpet (FRPT). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Coca-Cola Consolidated (NASDAQ:COKE) and Aramark (NYSE:ARMK) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
Aramark has a consensus target price of $33.04, indicating a potential upside of 2.13%. Given Coca-Cola Consolidated's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Aramark is more favorable than Coca-Cola Consolidated.
48.2% of Coca-Cola Consolidated shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Aramark shares are held by company 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.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has a net margin of 6.14% compared to Coca-Cola Consolidated's net margin of 3.37%. Aramark's return on equity of 44.12% beat Coca-Cola Consolidated's return on equity.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aramark has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Coca-Cola Consolidated pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Aramark pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Coca-Cola Consolidated pays out 4.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aramark pays out 15.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Coca-Cola Consolidated has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Aramark has higher revenue and earnings than Coca-Cola Consolidated. Aramark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coca-Cola Consolidated, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Coca-Cola Consolidated had 4 more articles in the media than Aramark. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Coca-Cola Consolidated and 6 mentions for Aramark. Coca-Cola Consolidated's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Aramark's score of 0.11 indicating that Aramark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aramark received 149 more outperform votes than Coca-Cola Consolidated when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.73% of users gave Coca-Cola Consolidated an outperform vote while only 62.32% of users gave Aramark an outperform vote.
Summary
Coca-Cola Consolidated beats Aramark on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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