SJM vs. HSY, GIS, K, TSN, MKC, HRL, CAG, CPB, PPC, and POST
Should you be buying J. M. Smucker stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J. M. Smucker include Hershey (HSY), General Mills (GIS), Kellanova (K), Tyson Foods (TSN), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Hormel Foods (HRL), Conagra Brands (CAG), Campbell Soup (CPB), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), and Post (POST). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Hershey (NYSE:HSY) and J. M. Smucker (NYSE:SJM) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
Hershey presently has a consensus price target of $210.56, suggesting a potential upside of 7.39%. J. M. Smucker has a consensus price target of $134.79, suggesting a potential upside of 17.23%. Given Hershey's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe J. M. Smucker is more favorable than Hershey.
Hershey pays an annual dividend of $5.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. J. M. Smucker pays an annual dividend of $4.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Hershey pays out 54.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J. M. Smucker pays out 59.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Hershey has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, J. M. Smucker had 20 more articles in the media than Hershey. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for J. M. Smucker and 12 mentions for Hershey. J. M. Smucker's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Hershey's score of 0.50 indicating that Hershey is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hershey has a net margin of 18.13% compared to Hershey's net margin of 9.10%. J. M. Smucker's return on equity of 50.15% beat Hershey's return on equity.
58.0% of Hershey shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of J. M. Smucker shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hershey shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of J. M. Smucker 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.
J. M. Smucker received 78 more outperform votes than Hershey when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.28% of users gave J. M. Smucker an outperform vote while only 53.22% of users gave Hershey an outperform vote.
Hershey has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J. M. Smucker has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hershey has higher revenue and earnings than J. M. Smucker. J. M. Smucker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hershey, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hershey beats J. M. Smucker on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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