TATE vs. CWK, PFD, HFG, BAKK, GRG, OCDO, BVIC, FEVR, BME, and SBRY
Should you be buying Tate & Lyle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tate & Lyle include Cranswick (CWK), Premier Foods (PFD), Hilton Food Group (HFG), Bakkavor Group (BAKK), Greggs (GRG), Ocado Group (OCDO), Britvic (BVIC), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), B&M European Value Retail (BME), and J Sainsbury (SBRY). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Cranswick (LON:CWK) and Tate & Lyle (LON:TATE) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Tate & Lyle has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cranswick. Tate & Lyle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cranswick, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cranswick has a beta of 0.43, meaning that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tate & Lyle has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cranswick pays an annual dividend of GBX 82 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Tate & Lyle pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Cranswick pays out 3,489.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Tate & Lyle pays out 4,418.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Cranswick and Cranswick both had 1 articles in the media. Tate & Lyle's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Cranswick's score of 0.00 indicating that Cranswick is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tate & Lyle has a net margin of 9.72% compared to Tate & Lyle's net margin of 5.14%. Tate & Lyle's return on equity of 15.14% beat Cranswick's return on equity.
Tate & Lyle received 146 more outperform votes than Cranswick when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.85% of users gave Cranswick an outperform vote while only 59.98% of users gave Tate & Lyle an outperform vote.
Cranswick currently has a consensus price target of GBX 4,405.25, indicating a potential upside of 0.01%. Tate & Lyle has a consensus price target of GBX 882.50, indicating a potential upside of 31.13%. Given Cranswick's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Tate & Lyle is more favorable than Cranswick.
77.2% of Cranswick shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.2% of Tate & Lyle shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Cranswick shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Tate & Lyle shares are owned 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.
Summary
Cranswick beats Tate & Lyle on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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