CHD vs. BF.B, IFF, TSN, ADM, CCEP, MKC, HRL, CLX, CELH, and ABEV
Should you be buying Church & Dwight stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Church & Dwight include Brown-Forman (BF.B), International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Tyson Foods (TSN), Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Hormel Foods (HRL), Clorox (CLX), Celsius (CELH), and Ambev (ABEV). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Brown-Forman (NYSE:BF.B) and Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
Brown-Forman currently has a consensus price target of $65.68, suggesting a potential upside of 34.88%. Church & Dwight has a consensus price target of $104.07, suggesting a potential downside of 2.66%. Given Church & Dwight's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Brown-Forman is more favorable than Church & Dwight.
34.7% of Brown-Forman shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of Church & Dwight shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Brown-Forman shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Church & Dwight shares are held by 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.
Church & Dwight received 194 more outperform votes than Brown-Forman when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.31% of users gave Church & Dwight an outperform vote while only 54.09% of users gave Brown-Forman an outperform vote.
Brown-Forman has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Church & Dwight has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brown-Forman pays an annual dividend of $0.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Church & Dwight pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Brown-Forman pays out 43.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Church & Dwight pays out 37.2% 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. Brown-Forman has increased its dividend for 34 consecutive years and Church & Dwight has increased its dividend for 28 consecutive years. Brown-Forman is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Brown-Forman has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Church & Dwight. Brown-Forman is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Church & Dwight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brown-Forman has a net margin of 22.65% compared to Brown-Forman's net margin of 12.88%. Church & Dwight's return on equity of 29.01% beat Brown-Forman's return on equity.
In the previous week, Church & Dwight had 15 more articles in the media than Brown-Forman. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Church & Dwight and 2 mentions for Brown-Forman. Brown-Forman's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Church & Dwight's score of 0.58 indicating that Church & Dwight is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Brown-Forman beats Church & Dwight on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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