CPB vs. CAG, FLO, SMPL, USFD, LW, TAP, SJM, ACI, CLX, and SCI
Should you be buying Campbell Soup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Campbell Soup include Conagra Brands (CAG), Flowers Foods (FLO), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), US Foods (USFD), Lamb Weston (LW), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Clorox (CLX), and Service Co. International (SCI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Conagra Brands (NYSE:CAG) and Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Conagra Brands has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Campbell Soup has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Campbell Soup had 8 more articles in the media than Conagra Brands. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Campbell Soup and 10 mentions for Conagra Brands. Campbell Soup's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Conagra Brands' score of 0.76 indicating that Conagra Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Conagra Brands presently has a consensus target price of $33.14, indicating a potential upside of 7.85%. Campbell Soup has a consensus target price of $46.35, indicating a potential downside of 0.23%. Given Campbell Soup's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Conagra Brands is more favorable than Campbell Soup.
83.8% of Conagra Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.4% of Campbell Soup shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Conagra Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.6% of Campbell Soup shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Conagra Brands received 124 more outperform votes than Campbell Soup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.96% of users gave Conagra Brands an outperform vote while only 41.97% of users gave Campbell Soup an outperform vote.
Campbell Soup has a net margin of 8.26% compared to Campbell Soup's net margin of 7.86%. Conagra Brands' return on equity of 23.18% beat Campbell Soup's return on equity.
Campbell Soup has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Conagra Brands. Conagra Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Campbell Soup, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Conagra Brands pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Campbell Soup pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Conagra Brands pays out 70.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Campbell Soup pays out 57.8% 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. Conagra Brands has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Conagra Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Campbell Soup beats Conagra Brands on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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