JJSF vs. WDFC, SAM, NOMD, NWL, TBBB, UTZ, SMPL, HELE, IPAR, and GO
Should you be buying J&J Snack Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J&J Snack Foods include WD-40 (WDFC), Boston Beer (SAM), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Newell Brands (NWL), BBB Foods (TBBB), Utz Brands (UTZ), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Helen of Troy (HELE), Inter Parfums (IPAR), and Grocery Outlet (GO). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
WD-40 (NASDAQ:WDFC) and J&J Snack Foods (NASDAQ:JJSF) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
WD-40 currently has a consensus target price of $313.00, indicating a potential upside of 36.71%. J&J Snack Foods has a consensus target price of $195.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.37%. Given J&J Snack Foods' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe WD-40 is more favorable than J&J Snack Foods.
WD-40 has a beta of -0.02, meaning that its stock price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J&J Snack Foods has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
WD-40 pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. J&J Snack Foods pays an annual dividend of $2.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. WD-40 pays out 70.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J&J Snack Foods pays out 66.2% 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 increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years and J&J Snack Foods has increased its dividend for 19 consecutive years. J&J Snack Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
J&J Snack Foods received 26 more outperform votes than WD-40 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.30% of users gave J&J Snack Foods an outperform vote while only 53.08% of users gave WD-40 an outperform vote.
In the previous week, WD-40 and WD-40 both had 5 articles in the media. J&J Snack Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat WD-40's score of 0.68 indicating that WD-40 is being referred to more favorably in the media.
91.5% of WD-40 shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.0% of J&J Snack Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of WD-40 shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.2% of J&J Snack Foods shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
WD-40 has a net margin of 12.19% compared to WD-40's net margin of 5.45%. J&J Snack Foods' return on equity of 32.30% beat WD-40's return on equity.
J&J Snack Foods has higher revenue and earnings than WD-40. J&J Snack Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WD-40, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
WD-40 and J&J Snack Foods tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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