NOMD vs. SMPL, VITL, FLO, JJSF, WDFC, TBBB, UTZ, HELE, SAM, and NWL
Should you be buying Nomad Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nomad Foods include Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Vital Farms (VITL), Flowers Foods (FLO), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), WD-40 (WDFC), BBB Foods (TBBB), Utz Brands (UTZ), Helen of Troy (HELE), Boston Beer (SAM), and Newell Brands (NWL). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Simply Good Foods (NASDAQ:SMPL) and Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Simply Good Foods has a net margin of 11.12% compared to Simply Good Foods' net margin of 6.10%. Nomad Foods' return on equity of 10.12% beat Simply Good Foods' return on equity.
Simply Good Foods presently has a consensus target price of $40.29, suggesting a potential upside of 7.34%. Nomad Foods has a consensus target price of $24.33, suggesting a potential upside of 34.07%. Given Simply Good Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nomad Foods is more favorable than Simply Good Foods.
88.5% 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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
In the previous week, Nomad Foods had 1 more articles in the media than Simply Good Foods. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Nomad Foods and 5 mentions for Simply Good Foods. Nomad Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat Simply Good Foods' score of 1.14 indicating that Simply Good Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Simply Good Foods has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nomad Foods has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% 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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