SPTN vs. DIN, ETD, FLWS, MOV, BJRI, TAST, UNFI, DBI, CURV, and FVRR
Should you be buying SpartanNash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SpartanNash include Dine Brands Global (DIN), Ethan Allen Interiors (ETD), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), Movado Group (MOV), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), United Natural Foods (UNFI), Designer Brands (DBI), Torrid (CURV), and Fiverr International (FVRR).
Dine Brands Global (NYSE:DIN) and SpartanNash (NASDAQ:SPTN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
Dine Brands Global pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. SpartanNash pays an annual dividend of $0.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Dine Brands Global pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SpartanNash pays out 58.0% 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. SpartanNash has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Dine Brands Global is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
92.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of SpartanNash shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of SpartanNash shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Dine Brands Global had 8 more articles in the media than SpartanNash. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Dine Brands Global and 1 mentions for SpartanNash. SpartanNash's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Dine Brands Global's score of 0.00 indicating that Dine Brands Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dine Brands Global currently has a consensus target price of $59.43, suggesting a potential upside of 33.97%. SpartanNash has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.11%. Given SpartanNash's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Dine Brands Global is more favorable than SpartanNash.
Dine Brands Global has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SpartanNash has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dine Brands Global has a net margin of 11.69% compared to Dine Brands Global's net margin of 0.54%. Dine Brands Global's return on equity of 9.86% beat SpartanNash's return on equity.
Dine Brands Global has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SpartanNash. Dine Brands Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SpartanNash, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dine Brands Global received 373 more outperform votes than SpartanNash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.38% of users gave Dine Brands Global an outperform vote while only 49.03% of users gave SpartanNash an outperform vote.
Summary
Dine Brands Global beats SpartanNash on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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