ARMK vs. COKE, ELF, PPC, COTY, NYT, INGR, SCI, DAR, CHWY, and POST
Should you be buying Aramark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aramark include Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Coty (COTY), New York Times (NYT), Ingredion (INGR), Service Co. International (SCI), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Chewy (CHWY), and Post (POST). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Aramark (NYSE:ARMK) and Coca-Cola Consolidated (NASDAQ:COKE) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has a net margin of 6.83% compared to Aramark's net margin of 3.43%. Coca-Cola Consolidated's return on equity of 42.10% beat Aramark's return on equity.
Aramark currently has a consensus price target of $33.32, suggesting a potential upside of 1.56%. Given Aramark's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Aramark is more favorable than Coca-Cola Consolidated.
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.
Aramark pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Coca-Cola Consolidated pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Aramark pays out 16.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Coca-Cola Consolidated pays out 4.1% 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.
Aramark received 148 more outperform votes than Coca-Cola Consolidated when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.81% of users gave Coca-Cola Consolidated an outperform vote while only 62.23% of users gave Aramark an outperform vote.
48.2% of Coca-Cola Consolidated shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Aramark shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Aramark has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca-Cola Consolidated has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Aramark and Aramark both had 9 articles in the media. Aramark's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Coca-Cola Consolidated's score of 0.72 indicating that Aramark is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Aramark and Coca-Cola Consolidated tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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