SYY vs. ANDE, CHEF, UNFI, SPTN, DPZ, USFD, HFFG, RAVE, CUEN, and WTER
Should you be buying Sysco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sysco include Andersons (ANDE), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), United Natural Foods (UNFI), SpartanNash (SPTN), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), US Foods (USFD), HF Foods Group (HFFG), Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE), Cuentas (CUEN), and Alkaline Water (WTER).
Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE) and Sysco (NYSE:SYY) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
Andersons presently has a consensus target price of $62.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.41%. Sysco has a consensus target price of $85.10, suggesting a potential upside of 16.86%. Given Sysco's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Andersons is more favorable than Sysco.
Sysco has higher revenue and earnings than Andersons. Andersons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sysco, 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 0.89%. Andersons' return on equity of 99.88% beat Sysco's return on equity.
87.1% of Andersons shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Sysco shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Andersons shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Sysco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Sysco had 4 more articles in the media than Andersons. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Sysco and 12 mentions for Andersons. Andersons' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Sysco's score of 0.62 indicating that Sysco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sysco received 198 more outperform votes than Andersons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.04% of users gave Sysco an outperform vote while only 56.71% of users gave Andersons an outperform vote.
Andersons has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sysco has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Andersons pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Sysco pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Andersons pays out 21.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sysco pays out 49.8% 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. Andersons has raised its dividend for 26 consecutive years and Sysco has raised its dividend for 56 consecutive years. Sysco is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Sysco beats Andersons on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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