SJM vs. HSY, GIS, TSN, K, 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), Tyson Foods (TSN), Kellanova (K), 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.
J. M. Smucker (NYSE:SJM) and Hershey (NYSE:HSY) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
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.
J. M. Smucker currently has a consensus target price of $136.07, indicating a potential upside of 21.88%. Hershey has a consensus target price of $210.56, indicating a potential upside of 6.43%. Given J. M. Smucker's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe J. M. Smucker is more favorable than Hershey.
Hershey has a net margin of 18.13% compared to J. M. Smucker's net margin of -1.24%. Hershey's return on equity of 50.15% beat J. M. Smucker's return on equity.
81.7% of J. M. Smucker shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.0% of Hershey shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of J. M. Smucker shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Hershey shares are held 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.
J. M. Smucker has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hershey has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
J. M. Smucker pays an annual dividend of $4.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Hershey pays an annual dividend of $5.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. J. M. Smucker pays out -481.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hershey pays out 54.3% 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. J. M. Smucker is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Hershey had 12 more articles in the media than J. M. Smucker. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Hershey and 9 mentions for J. M. Smucker. J. M. Smucker's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Hershey's score of 0.37 indicating that J. M. Smucker is being referred to more favorably in the media.
J. M. Smucker received 76 more outperform votes than Hershey when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.27% of users gave J. M. Smucker an outperform vote while only 53.22% of users gave Hershey an outperform vote.
Summary
Hershey beats J. M. Smucker on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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