PPC vs. SAFM, TSN, K, MKC, HRL, CAG, CPB, SJM, POST, and LANC
Should you be buying Pilgrim's Pride stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pilgrim's Pride include Sanderson Farms (SAFM), Tyson Foods (TSN), Kellanova (K), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Hormel Foods (HRL), Conagra Brands (CAG), Campbell Soup (CPB), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Post (POST), and Lancaster Colony (LANC). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Sanderson Farms (NASDAQ:SAFM) and Pilgrim's Pride (NASDAQ:PPC) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Pilgrim's Pride has a consensus price target of $37.25, suggesting a potential upside of 3.67%. Given Sanderson Farms' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Pilgrim's Pride is more favorable than Sanderson Farms.
In the previous week, Pilgrim's Pride had 5 more articles in the media than Sanderson Farms. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Pilgrim's Pride and 0 mentions for Sanderson Farms. Sanderson Farms' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Pilgrim's Pride's score of 0.39 indicating that Pilgrim's Pride is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sanderson Farms received 72 more outperform votes than Pilgrim's Pride when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.67% of users gave Sanderson Farms an outperform vote while only 60.45% of users gave Pilgrim's Pride an outperform vote.
79.6% of Sanderson Farms shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Sanderson Farms shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 82.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are owned by 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.
Sanderson Farms has a net margin of 15.34% compared to Sanderson Farms' net margin of 2.80%. Pilgrim's Pride's return on equity of 43.58% beat Sanderson Farms' return on equity.
Sanderson Farms has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pilgrim's Pride. Sanderson Farms is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pilgrim's Pride, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sanderson Farms has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pilgrim's Pride has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sanderson Farms beats Pilgrim's Pride on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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