NWL vs. SAM, WDFC, JJSF, SMPL, NOMD, IPAR, TBBB, BRFS, UTZ, and HELE
Should you be buying Newell Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Newell Brands include Boston Beer (SAM), WD-40 (WDFC), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Inter Parfums (IPAR), BBB Foods (TBBB), BRF (BRFS), Utz Brands (UTZ), and Helen of Troy (HELE). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Newell Brands (NASDAQ:NWL) and Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk and dividends.
Boston Beer received 353 more outperform votes than Newell Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.06% of users gave Boston Beer an outperform vote while only 18.18% of users gave Newell Brands an outperform vote.
Newell Brands currently has a consensus price target of $8.70, suggesting a potential upside of 10.74%. Boston Beer has a consensus price target of $333.93, suggesting a potential upside of 28.06%. Given Boston Beer's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Boston Beer is more favorable than Newell Brands.
Boston Beer has a net margin of 4.60% compared to Newell Brands' net margin of -3.70%. Newell Brands' return on equity of 11.21% beat Boston Beer's return on equity.
Newell Brands has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boston Beer has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Newell Brands had 1 more articles in the media than Boston Beer. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Newell Brands and 8 mentions for Boston Beer. Boston Beer's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Newell Brands' score of 0.79 indicating that Boston Beer is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.5% of Newell Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.1% of Boston Beer shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Newell Brands shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.0% of Boston Beer shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Boston Beer has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Newell Brands. Newell Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boston Beer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Boston Beer beats Newell Brands on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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