SMPL vs. NOMD, FLO, VITL, BGS, HAIN, BYND, BRBR, CPB, IPAR, and BRFS
Should you be buying Simply Good Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Simply Good Foods include Nomad Foods (NOMD), Flowers Foods (FLO), Vital Farms (VITL), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Beyond Meat (BYND), BellRing Brands (BRBR), Campbell Soup (CPB), Inter Parfums (IPAR), and BRF (BRFS).
Simply Good Foods (NASDAQ:SMPL) and Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Nomad Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Simply Good Foods. Nomad Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Simply Good Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Simply Good Foods had 10 more articles in the media than Nomad Foods. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Simply Good Foods and 7 mentions for Nomad Foods. Simply Good Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Nomad Foods' score of -0.07 indicating that Simply Good Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Simply Good Foods has a net margin of 11.12% compared to Nomad Foods' net margin of 6.34%. Nomad Foods' return on equity of 10.41% beat Simply Good Foods' return on equity.
Simply Good Foods received 45 more outperform votes than Nomad Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.02% of users gave Simply Good Foods an outperform vote while only 62.23% of users gave Nomad Foods an outperform vote.
Simply Good Foods currently has a consensus price target of $40.29, indicating a potential upside of 9.62%. Nomad Foods has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.57%. Given Nomad Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nomad Foods is more favorable than Simply Good Foods.
88.5% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of Nomad Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Simply Good Foods has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nomad Foods has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Simply Good Foods beats Nomad Foods on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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