SMPL vs. FLO, MTG, RDN, TFSL, WD, WSFS, NYCB, WAFD, BANC, and AGM
Should you be buying Simply Good Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Simply Good Foods include Flowers Foods (FLO), MGIC Investment (MTG), Radian Group (RDN), TFS Financial (TFSL), Walker & Dunlop (WD), WSFS Financial (WSFS), New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), WaFd (WAFD), Banc of California (BANC), and Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM).
Simply Good Foods (NASDAQ:SMPL) and Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
Simply Good Foods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Flowers Foods. Simply Good Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flowers Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Flowers Foods received 190 more outperform votes than Simply Good Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.02% of users gave Simply Good Foods an outperform vote while only 61.58% of users gave Flowers Foods an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Flowers Foods had 13 more articles in the media than Simply Good Foods. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Flowers Foods and 4 mentions for Simply Good Foods. Simply Good Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Flowers Foods' score of 0.55 indicating that Simply Good Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Simply Good Foods has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowers Foods has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Simply Good Foods presently has a consensus price target of $40.29, suggesting a potential upside of 8.35%. Flowers Foods has a consensus price target of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.26%. Given Simply Good Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Simply Good Foods is more favorable than Flowers Foods.
Simply Good Foods has a net margin of 11.12% compared to Flowers Foods' net margin of 2.45%. Flowers Foods' return on equity of 18.35% beat Simply Good Foods' return on equity.
88.5% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.5% of Flowers Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Flowers Foods shares are owned by 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.
Summary
Simply Good Foods beats Flowers Foods on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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