NOMD vs. BRBR, FLO, SMPL, VITL, BGS, HAIN, OTLY, BYND, SOWG, and BRLS
Should you be buying Nomad Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nomad Foods include BellRing Brands (BRBR), Flowers Foods (FLO), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Vital Farms (VITL), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Oatly Group (OTLY), Beyond Meat (BYND), Sow Good (SOWG), and Borealis Foods (BRLS). These companies are all part of the "food & kindred products" industry.
BellRing Brands (NYSE:BRBR) and Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.
95.0% of BellRing Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of Nomad Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of BellRing Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.3% of Nomad Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
BellRing Brands has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nomad Foods has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BellRing Brands presently has a consensus target price of $62.23, indicating a potential upside of 12.74%. Nomad Foods has a consensus target price of $24.33, indicating a potential upside of 46.59%. Given BellRing Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nomad Foods is more favorable than BellRing Brands.
Nomad Foods received 142 more outperform votes than BellRing Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.44% of users gave BellRing Brands an outperform vote while only 62.32% of users gave Nomad Foods an outperform vote.
In the previous week, BellRing Brands had 4 more articles in the media than Nomad Foods. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for BellRing Brands and 2 mentions for Nomad Foods. BellRing Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Nomad Foods' score of 0.66 indicating that Nomad Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BellRing Brands has a net margin of 10.39% compared to BellRing Brands' net margin of 6.10%. BellRing Brands' return on equity of 9.68% beat Nomad Foods' return on equity.
Nomad Foods has higher revenue and earnings than BellRing Brands. Nomad Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BellRing Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BellRing Brands beats Nomad Foods on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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