CTVA vs. HSY, GIS, ABEV, KVUE, SYY, KHC, KMB, KDP, EL, and CCEP
Should you be buying Corteva stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Corteva include Hershey (HSY), General Mills (GIS), Ambev (ABEV), Kenvue (KVUE), Sysco (SYY), Kraft Heinz (KHC), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Hershey (NYSE:HSY) and Corteva (NYSE:CTVA) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
58.0% of Hershey shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.5% of Corteva shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hershey shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Corteva shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hershey has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Corteva has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hershey had 24 more articles in the media than Corteva. MarketBeat recorded 60 mentions for Hershey and 36 mentions for Corteva. Corteva's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Hershey's score of 0.65 indicating that Hershey is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hershey has a net margin of 18.13% compared to Hershey's net margin of 3.32%. Corteva's return on equity of 50.15% beat Hershey's return on equity.
Hershey has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Corteva. Hershey is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Corteva, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hershey currently has a consensus target price of $213.06, indicating a potential upside of 6.55%. Corteva has a consensus target price of $63.24, indicating a potential upside of 11.30%. Given Hershey's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Corteva is more favorable than Hershey.
Hershey received 460 more outperform votes than Corteva when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.37% of users gave Corteva an outperform vote while only 53.17% of users gave Hershey an outperform vote.
Hershey pays an annual dividend of $5.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Corteva pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Hershey pays out 54.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Corteva pays out 81.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hershey has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years and Corteva has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Hershey is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Hershey beats Corteva on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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