WDFC vs. SPB, CENTA, OEC, ODC, FTK, ADES, PG, CL, KMB, and CHD
Should you be buying WD-40 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WD-40 include Spectrum Brands (SPB), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Orion (OEC), Oil-Dri Co. of America (ODC), Flotek Industries (FTK), Advanced Emissions Solutions (ADES), Procter & Gamble (PG), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), and Church & Dwight (CHD).
Spectrum Brands (NYSE:SPB) and WD-40 (NASDAQ:WDFC) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
91.5% of WD-40 shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Spectrum Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of WD-40 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Spectrum Brands currently has a consensus price target of $99.86, suggesting a potential upside of 11.45%. WD-40 has a consensus price target of $313.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.54%. Given Spectrum Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe WD-40 is more favorable than Spectrum Brands.
Spectrum Brands has a net margin of 68.11% compared to Spectrum Brands' net margin of 12.19%. Spectrum Brands' return on equity of 32.30% beat WD-40's return on equity.
In the previous week, Spectrum Brands had 8 more articles in the media than WD-40. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Spectrum Brands and 1 mentions for WD-40. Spectrum Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat WD-40's score of 0.97 indicating that WD-40 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Spectrum Brands has higher revenue and earnings than WD-40. Spectrum Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WD-40, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spectrum Brands pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. WD-40 pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Spectrum Brands pays out 3.4% 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. WD-40 has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Spectrum Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Spectrum Brands received 286 more outperform votes than WD-40 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.87% of users gave Spectrum Brands an outperform vote while only 53.08% of users gave WD-40 an outperform vote.
Spectrum Brands has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WD-40 has a beta of -0.07, indicating that its stock price is 107% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Spectrum Brands beats WD-40 on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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