SPB vs. CENTA, TGNA, MODG, MANU, UA, PENN, CRI, LAUR, STRA, and UAA
Should you be buying Spectrum Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spectrum Brands include Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), TEGNA (TGNA), Topgolf Callaway Brands (MODG), Manchester United (MANU), Under Armour (UA), PENN Entertainment (PENN), Carter's (CRI), Laureate Education (LAUR), Strategic Education (STRA), and Under Armour (UAA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Spectrum Brands (NYSE:SPB) and Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENTA) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.
Spectrum Brands currently has a consensus target price of $99.86, indicating a potential upside of 8.47%. Central Garden & Pet has a consensus target price of $41.75, indicating a potential upside of 5.08%. Given Spectrum Brands' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Spectrum Brands is more favorable than Central Garden & Pet.
Spectrum Brands has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Central Garden & Pet has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Spectrum Brands had 3 more articles in the media than Central Garden & Pet. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Spectrum Brands and 7 mentions for Central Garden & Pet. Spectrum Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Central Garden & Pet's score of 0.47 indicating that Spectrum Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Spectrum Brands received 382 more outperform votes than Central Garden & Pet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.83% of users gave Spectrum Brands an outperform vote while only 63.70% of users gave Central Garden & Pet an outperform vote.
50.8% of Central Garden & Pet shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Spectrum Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of Central Garden & Pet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Spectrum Brands has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Central Garden & Pet. Spectrum Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Central Garden & Pet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spectrum Brands has a net margin of 68.11% compared to Central Garden & Pet's net margin of 4.49%. Central Garden & Pet's return on equity of 11.30% beat Spectrum Brands' return on equity.
Summary
Spectrum Brands beats Central Garden & Pet on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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