MFI vs. PBH, JWEL, SOY, SAP, NWC, PRMW, EMP.A, HLF, BU, and SWP
Should you be buying Maple Leaf Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maple Leaf Foods include Premium Brands (PBH), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), SunOpta (SOY), Saputo (SAP), North West (NWC), Primo Water (PRMW), Empire (EMP.A), High Liner Foods (HLF), Burcon NutraScience (BU), and Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Premium Brands (TSE:PBH) and Maple Leaf Foods (TSE:MFI) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Premium Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Maple Leaf Foods. Maple Leaf Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Premium Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Premium Brands pays an annual dividend of C$3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Maple Leaf Foods pays an annual dividend of C$0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Premium Brands pays out 161.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Maple Leaf Foods pays out -85.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Premium Brands has a net margin of 1.50% compared to Premium Brands' net margin of -2.57%. Maple Leaf Foods' return on equity of 5.26% beat Premium Brands' return on equity.
Premium Brands has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Maple Leaf Foods has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Premium Brands currently has a consensus price target of C$111.70, suggesting a potential upside of 26.74%. Maple Leaf Foods has a consensus price target of C$30.07, suggesting a potential upside of 26.72%. Given Maple Leaf Foods' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Premium Brands is more favorable than Maple Leaf Foods.
In the previous week, Premium Brands had 4 more articles in the media than Maple Leaf Foods. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Premium Brands and 9 mentions for Maple Leaf Foods. Maple Leaf Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Premium Brands' score of 0.57 indicating that Premium Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Maple Leaf Foods received 124 more outperform votes than Premium Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.21% of users gave Maple Leaf Foods an outperform vote while only 55.68% of users gave Premium Brands an outperform vote.
43.4% of Premium Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.8% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Premium Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 40.1% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Premium Brands beats Maple Leaf Foods on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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