USFD vs. SYY, CPB, LW, TAP, SJM, ACI, CAG, SCI, COTY, and CLX
Should you be buying US Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of US Foods include Sysco (SYY), Campbell Soup (CPB), Lamb Weston (LW), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Conagra Brands (CAG), Service Co. International (SCI), Coty (COTY), and Clorox (CLX). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Sysco (NYSE:SYY) and US Foods (NYSE:USFD) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Sysco has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, US Foods has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, US Foods had 1 more articles in the media than Sysco. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for US Foods and 11 mentions for Sysco. US Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Sysco's score of 0.89 indicating that Sysco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
83.4% of Sysco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of US Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Sysco shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of US Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sysco currently has a consensus target price of $84.56, suggesting a potential upside of 11.39%. US Foods has a consensus target price of $60.56, suggesting a potential upside of 9.78%. Given US Foods' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sysco is more favorable than US Foods.
Sysco received 70 more outperform votes than US Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.90% of users gave US Foods an outperform vote while only 57.86% of users gave Sysco an outperform vote.
Sysco has higher revenue and earnings than US Foods. Sysco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than US Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sysco has a net margin of 2.66% compared to Sysco's net margin of 1.41%. US Foods' return on equity of 99.88% beat Sysco's return on equity.
Summary
Sysco beats US Foods on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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