PBH vs. MFI, JWEL, SAP, PRMW, EMP.A, NWC, SOY, HLF, BU, and SWP
Should you be buying Premium Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premium Brands include Maple Leaf Foods (MFI), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), Saputo (SAP), Primo Water (PRMW), Empire (EMP.A), North West (NWC), SunOpta (SOY), High Liner Foods (HLF), Burcon NutraScience (BU), and Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Premium Brands (TSE:PBH) and Maple Leaf Foods (TSE:MFI) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, earnings and risk.
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.
Premium Brands has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Maple Leaf Foods has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
43.3% of Premium Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.9% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Premium Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 40.1% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Premium Brands pays an annual dividend of C$3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Maple Leaf Foods pays an annual dividend of C$0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. 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 pays out -676.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Maple Leaf Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Premium Brands presently has a consensus price target of C$113.50, indicating a potential upside of 23.96%. Maple Leaf Foods has a consensus price target of C$30.07, indicating a potential upside of 27.04%. Given Maple Leaf Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Maple Leaf Foods is more favorable than Premium Brands.
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 0.11 beat Maple Leaf Foods' score of 0.00 indicating that Premium Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Summary
Premium Brands beats Maple Leaf Foods on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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