HSY vs. CTVA, GIS, ABEV, KVUE, SYY, KHC, KMB, KDP, EL, and STZ
Should you be buying Hershey stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hershey include Corteva (CTVA), General Mills (GIS), Ambev (ABEV), Kenvue (KVUE), Sysco (SYY), Kraft Heinz (KHC), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), and Constellation Brands (STZ). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Corteva (NYSE:CTVA) and Hershey (NYSE:HSY) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Hershey has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Corteva currently has a consensus price target of $63.24, suggesting a potential upside of 11.30%. Hershey has a consensus price target of $213.06, suggesting a potential upside of 6.55%. Given Hershey's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Corteva is more favorable than Hershey.
In the previous week, Hershey had 20 more articles in the media than Corteva. MarketBeat recorded 59 mentions for Hershey and 39 mentions for Corteva. Corteva's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Hershey's score of 0.54 indicating that Hershey is being referred to more favorably in the news 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.
81.5% of Corteva shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.0% of Hershey shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Corteva shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hershey shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Corteva pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Hershey pays an annual dividend of $5.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. 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 pays out 54.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Corteva has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Hershey has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Hershey is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
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.
Corteva has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hershey has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hershey beats Corteva on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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