SMPL vs. NOMD, FLO, VITL, BGS, HAIN, BYND, BRBR, CPB, CAG, 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), Conagra Brands (CAG), and BRF (BRFS).
Simply Good Foods (NASDAQ:SMPL) and Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.
Simply Good Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Nomad Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Simply Good Foods pays out 25.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nomad Foods pays out 48.8% 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.
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 beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nomad Foods has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Simply Good Foods has a net margin of 11.12% compared to Nomad Foods' net margin of 6.34%. Nomad Foods' return on equity of 10.41% beat Simply Good Foods' return on equity.
Simply Good Foods received 44 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 62.32% of users gave Nomad Foods an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Nomad Foods had 12 more articles in the media than Simply Good Foods. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Nomad Foods and 3 mentions for Simply Good Foods. Simply Good Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Nomad Foods' score of 0.19 indicating that Simply Good Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
88.4% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of Nomad Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.3% of Nomad Foods shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Simply Good Foods presently has a consensus price target of $40.29, indicating a potential upside of 5.27%. Nomad Foods has a consensus price target of $24.25, indicating a potential upside of 27.36%. Given Nomad Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nomad Foods is more favorable than Simply Good Foods.
Summary
Simply Good Foods beats Nomad Foods on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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