SAP vs. PBH, MFI, MRU, EMP.A, PRMW, WN, DOL, JWEL, SOY, and HLF
Should you be buying Saputo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saputo include Premium Brands (PBH), Maple Leaf Foods (MFI), Metro (MRU), Empire (EMP.A), Primo Water (PRMW), George Weston (WN), Dollarama (DOL), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), SunOpta (SOY), and High Liner Foods (HLF). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Premium Brands (TSE:PBH) and Saputo (TSE:SAP) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, Premium Brands had 21 more articles in the media than Saputo. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Premium Brands and 13 mentions for Saputo. Premium Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Saputo's score of 0.09 indicating that Saputo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Premium Brands pays an annual dividend of C$3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Saputo pays an annual dividend of C$0.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. 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. Saputo pays out 94.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Saputo has higher revenue and earnings than Premium Brands. Saputo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Premium Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Saputo received 23 more outperform votes than Premium Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.86% of users gave Saputo an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Premium Brands an outperform vote.
43.3% of Premium Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.9% of Saputo shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Premium Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 42.1% of Saputo shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Saputo has a net margin of 1.92% compared to Saputo's net margin of 1.50%. Saputo's return on equity of 5.37% beat Premium Brands' return on equity.
Premium Brands has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Saputo has a beta of 0.32, suggesting that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Premium Brands currently has a consensus price target of C$113.50, suggesting a potential upside of 23.96%. Saputo has a consensus price target of C$33.81, suggesting a potential upside of 21.80%. Given Saputo's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Premium Brands is more favorable than Saputo.
Summary
Saputo beats Premium Brands on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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