BGS vs. CALM, TR, THS, JBSS, HAIN, CVGW, SENEA, LWAY, FARM, and MDLZ
Should you be buying B&G Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B&G Foods include Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), TreeHouse Foods (THS), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Calavo Growers (CVGW), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Farmer Bros. (FARM), and Mondelez International (MDLZ). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) and Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ:CALM) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
In the previous week, B&G Foods and B&G Foods both had 2 articles in the media. Cal-Maine Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat B&G Foods' score of 0.32 indicating that Cal-Maine Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cal-Maine Foods has higher revenue and earnings than B&G Foods. B&G Foods 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.
Cal-Maine Foods has a net margin of 11.61% compared to B&G Foods' net margin of -5.42%. Cal-Maine Foods' return on equity of 16.79% beat B&G Foods' return on equity.
B&G Foods has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cal-Maine Foods has a beta of -0.05, meaning that its share price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500.
B&G Foods currently has a consensus price target of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.60%. Cal-Maine Foods has a consensus price target of $52.50, suggesting a potential downside of 9.65%. Given B&G Foods' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe B&G Foods is more favorable than Cal-Maine Foods.
66.2% of B&G Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of B&G Foods shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.5% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
B&G Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Cal-Maine Foods pays an annual dividend of $3.99 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. B&G Foods pays out -52.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cal-Maine Foods pays out 70.7% 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. B&G Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
B&G Foods received 74 more outperform votes than Cal-Maine Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.80% of users gave B&G Foods an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Cal-Maine Foods an outperform vote.
Summary
Cal-Maine Foods beats B&G Foods on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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