JBSS vs. FREE, RMCF, JJSF, CALM, TR, THS, BGS, HAIN, CVGW, and SENEA
Should you be buying John B. Sanfilippo & Son stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John B. Sanfilippo & Son include Whole Earth Brands (FREE), Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (RMCF), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), TreeHouse Foods (THS), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Calavo Growers (CVGW), and Seneca Foods (SENEA).
John B. Sanfilippo & Son (NASDAQ:JBSS) and Whole Earth Brands (NASDAQ:FREE) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
John B. Sanfilippo & Son has higher revenue and earnings than Whole Earth Brands. Whole Earth Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than John B. Sanfilippo & Son, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
John B. Sanfilippo & Son has a beta of 0.08, suggesting that its stock price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Whole Earth Brands has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
John B. Sanfilippo & Son received 141 more outperform votes than Whole Earth Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.97% of users gave John B. Sanfilippo & Son an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Whole Earth Brands an outperform vote.
In the previous week, John B. Sanfilippo & Son and John B. Sanfilippo & Son both had 3 articles in the media. John B. Sanfilippo & Son's average media sentiment score of 1.83 beat Whole Earth Brands' score of 1.77 indicating that John B. Sanfilippo & Son is being referred to more favorably in the media.
70.6% of John B. Sanfilippo & Son shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.1% of Whole Earth Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 30.2% of John B. Sanfilippo & Son shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Whole Earth Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
John B. Sanfilippo & Son has a net margin of 6.29% compared to Whole Earth Brands' net margin of -5.05%. John B. Sanfilippo & Son's return on equity of 21.48% beat Whole Earth Brands' return on equity.
Summary
John B. Sanfilippo & Son beats Whole Earth Brands on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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