MFI vs. PBH, JWEL, SOY, SAP, NWC, PRMW, EMP.A, RSI, HLF, and BU
Should you be buying Maple Leaf Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maple Leaf Foods include Premium Brands (PBH), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), SunOpta (SOY), Saputo (SAP), North West (NWC), Primo Water (PRMW), Empire (EMP.A), Rogers Sugar (RSI), High Liner Foods (HLF), and Burcon NutraScience (BU). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Maple Leaf Foods (TSE:MFI) and Premium Brands (TSE:PBH) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, risk and media sentiment.
Premium Brands has a net margin of 1.50% compared to Maple Leaf Foods' net margin of -0.32%. Premium Brands' return on equity of 5.37% beat Maple Leaf Foods' return on equity.
Maple Leaf Foods has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premium Brands has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Premium Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Maple Leaf Foods. Maple Leaf Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Premium Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Maple Leaf Foods currently has a consensus target price of C$30.07, indicating a potential upside of 27.04%. Premium Brands has a consensus target price of C$113.50, indicating a potential upside of 23.96%. Given Maple Leaf Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Maple Leaf Foods is more favorable than Premium Brands.
24.9% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.3% of Premium Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 40.1% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Premium Brands shares are held 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.
Maple Leaf Foods received 121 more outperform votes than Premium Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.21% of users gave Maple Leaf Foods an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Premium Brands an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Premium Brands had 34 more articles in the media than Maple Leaf Foods. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Premium Brands and 0 mentions for Maple Leaf Foods. Premium Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Maple Leaf Foods' score of 0.00 indicating that Premium Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Maple Leaf Foods pays an annual dividend of C$0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Premium Brands pays an annual dividend of C$3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Maple Leaf Foods pays out -676.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Premium Brands pays out 160.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Maple Leaf Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Premium Brands beats Maple Leaf Foods on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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