CALM vs. SJM, PPC, POST, LANC, FLO, JJSF, TR, THS, JBSS, and BGS
Should you be buying Cal-Maine Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cal-Maine Foods include J. M. Smucker (SJM), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Post (POST), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), TreeHouse Foods (THS), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), and B&G Foods (BGS). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ:CALM) and J. M. Smucker (NYSE:SJM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Cal-Maine Foods has a net margin of 11.61% compared to J. M. Smucker's net margin of -1.24%. Cal-Maine Foods' return on equity of 16.79% beat J. M. Smucker's return on equity.
Cal-Maine Foods currently has a consensus price target of $52.50, suggesting a potential downside of 14.87%. J. M. Smucker has a consensus price target of $136.07, suggesting a potential upside of 21.88%. Given J. M. Smucker's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe J. M. Smucker is more favorable than Cal-Maine Foods.
In the previous week, J. M. Smucker had 6 more articles in the media than Cal-Maine Foods. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for J. M. Smucker and 4 mentions for Cal-Maine Foods. J. M. Smucker's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Cal-Maine Foods' score of 0.65 indicating that J. M. Smucker is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cal-Maine Foods pays an annual dividend of $3.99 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. J. M. Smucker pays an annual dividend of $4.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Cal-Maine Foods pays out 70.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J. M. Smucker pays out -481.8% 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.
Cal-Maine Foods has a beta of -0.02, suggesting that its share price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J. M. Smucker has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
84.7% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of J. M. Smucker shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.5% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of J. M. Smucker shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
J. M. Smucker received 400 more outperform votes than Cal-Maine Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.27% of users gave J. M. Smucker an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Cal-Maine Foods an outperform vote.
Cal-Maine Foods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than J. M. Smucker. J. M. Smucker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cal-Maine Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
J. M. Smucker beats Cal-Maine Foods on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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