WDFC vs. NOMD, NWL, SAM, JJSF, GO, TBBB, BRFS, UTZ, SMPL, and VSTS
Should you be buying WD-40 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WD-40 include Nomad Foods (NOMD), Newell Brands (NWL), Boston Beer (SAM), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Grocery Outlet (GO), BBB Foods (TBBB), BRF (BRFS), Utz Brands (UTZ), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), and Vestis (VSTS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD) and WD-40 (NASDAQ:WDFC) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Nomad Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. WD-40 pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Nomad Foods pays out 48.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. WD-40 pays out 70.3% 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 raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Nomad Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Nomad Foods has higher revenue and earnings than WD-40. Nomad 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.
Nomad Foods has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WD-40 has a beta of -0.02, suggesting that its stock price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nomad Foods presently has a consensus target price of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.14%. WD-40 has a consensus target price of $313.00, indicating a potential upside of 36.08%. Given Nomad Foods' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe WD-40 is more favorable than Nomad Foods.
WD-40 has a net margin of 12.19% compared to WD-40's net margin of 6.34%. Nomad Foods' return on equity of 32.30% beat WD-40's return on equity.
75.3% of Nomad Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of WD-40 shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.3% of Nomad Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of WD-40 shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Nomad Foods had 3 more articles in the media than WD-40. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Nomad Foods and 6 mentions for WD-40. Nomad Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat WD-40's score of 0.14 indicating that WD-40 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
WD-40 received 19 more outperform votes than Nomad Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.23% of users gave Nomad Foods an outperform vote while only 53.08% of users gave WD-40 an outperform vote.
Summary
WD-40 beats Nomad Foods on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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