NWL vs. NOMD, WDFC, GO, JJSF, UTZ, SMPL, VSTS, SAM, HELE, and TBBB
Should you be buying Newell Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Newell Brands include Nomad Foods (NOMD), WD-40 (WDFC), Grocery Outlet (GO), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Utz Brands (UTZ), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Vestis (VSTS), Boston Beer (SAM), Helen of Troy (HELE), and BBB Foods (TBBB). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD) and Newell Brands (NASDAQ:NWL) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Nomad Foods has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Newell Brands has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nomad Foods presently has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.06%. Newell Brands has a consensus price target of $9.13, indicating a potential upside of 17.14%. Given Newell Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nomad Foods is more favorable than Newell Brands.
75.3% of Nomad Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of Newell Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 17.3% of Nomad Foods shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Newell Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Newell Brands had 31 more articles in the media than Nomad Foods. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Newell Brands and 5 mentions for Nomad Foods. Nomad Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Newell Brands' score of 0.01 indicating that Newell Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nomad Foods has a net margin of 6.34% compared to Nomad Foods' net margin of -4.77%. Newell Brands' return on equity of 10.41% beat Nomad Foods' return on equity.
Nomad Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Newell Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Nomad Foods pays out 48.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Newell Brands pays out -29.5% 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. Newell Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Nomad Foods received 240 more outperform votes than Newell Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.23% of users gave Nomad Foods an outperform vote while only 18.09% of users gave Newell Brands an outperform vote.
Nomad Foods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Newell Brands. Newell Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nomad Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Nomad Foods beats Newell Brands on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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