SMPL vs. NOMD, FLO, VITL, BGS, HAIN, BYND, BRBR, CPB, IPAR, and BRFS
Should you be buying Simply Good Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Simply Good Foods include Nomad Foods (NOMD), Flowers Foods (FLO), Vital Farms (VITL), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Beyond Meat (BYND), BellRing Brands (BRBR), Campbell Soup (CPB), Inter Parfums (IPAR), and BRF (BRFS).
Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD) and Simply Good Foods (NASDAQ:SMPL) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
Nomad Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Simply Good Foods. Nomad Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Simply Good Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Simply Good Foods has a net margin of 11.12% compared to Simply Good Foods' net margin of 6.34%. Simply Good Foods' return on equity of 10.41% beat Nomad Foods' return on equity.
75.3% of Nomad Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.5% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.3% of Nomad Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.0% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Nomad Foods presently has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.72%. Simply Good Foods has a consensus price target of $40.29, suggesting a potential upside of 9.23%. Given Simply Good Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Nomad Foods is more favorable than Simply Good Foods.
Simply Good Foods received 45 more outperform votes than Nomad Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.02% of users gave Simply Good Foods an outperform vote while only 62.23% of users gave Nomad Foods an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Simply Good Foods had 7 more articles in the media than Nomad Foods. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Simply Good Foods and 10 mentions for Nomad Foods. Nomad Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Simply Good Foods' score of 0.00 indicating that Simply Good Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nomad Foods has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Simply Good Foods has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Simply Good Foods beats Nomad Foods on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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