WDFC vs. JJSF, SAM, NWL, NOMD, TBBB, BRFS, UTZ, SMPL, GO, and IPAR
Should you be buying WD-40 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WD-40 include J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Boston Beer (SAM), Newell Brands (NWL), Nomad Foods (NOMD), BBB Foods (TBBB), BRF (BRFS), Utz Brands (UTZ), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Grocery Outlet (GO), and Inter Parfums (IPAR). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
J&J Snack Foods (NASDAQ:JJSF) and WD-40 (NASDAQ:WDFC) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
J&J Snack Foods currently has a consensus target price of $195.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.71%. WD-40 has a consensus target price of $313.00, suggesting a potential upside of 33.70%. Given J&J Snack Foods' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe WD-40 is more favorable than J&J Snack Foods.
76.0% of J&J Snack Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of WD-40 shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.2% of J&J Snack Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of WD-40 shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
J&J Snack Foods has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WD-40 has a beta of -0.02, indicating that its share price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500.
J&J Snack Foods pays an annual dividend of $2.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. WD-40 pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. J&J Snack Foods pays out 71.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. WD-40 pays out 70.3% 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&J Snack Foods has increased its dividend for 19 consecutive years and WD-40 has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years. J&J Snack Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
WD-40 has a net margin of 12.19% compared to WD-40's net margin of 5.11%. J&J Snack Foods' return on equity of 32.30% beat WD-40's return on equity.
In the previous week, J&J Snack Foods had 19 more articles in the media than WD-40. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for J&J Snack Foods and 6 mentions for WD-40. WD-40's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat J&J Snack Foods' score of 0.19 indicating that J&J Snack Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
J&J Snack Foods has higher revenue and earnings than WD-40. J&J Snack Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WD-40, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
J&J Snack Foods received 26 more outperform votes than WD-40 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.30% of users gave J&J Snack Foods an outperform vote while only 53.08% of users gave WD-40 an outperform vote.
Summary
J&J Snack Foods beats WD-40 on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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