FLO vs. CPB, CAG, SMPL, NOMD, LANC, FRPT, BROS, RH, OLLI, and NTCOY
Should you be buying Flowers Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowers Foods include Campbell Soup (CPB), Conagra Brands (CAG), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Freshpet (FRPT), Dutch Bros (BROS), RH (RH), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), and Natura &Co (NTCOY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) and Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Campbell Soup pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Flowers Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Campbell Soup pays out 57.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flowers Foods pays out 158.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Flowers Foods has raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years. Flowers Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
52.4% of Campbell Soup shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.4% of Flowers Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 20.6% of Campbell Soup shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Flowers Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Campbell Soup has a net margin of 8.26% compared to Campbell Soup's net margin of 2.42%. Flowers Foods' return on equity of 23.18% beat Campbell Soup's return on equity.
Flowers Foods received 23 more outperform votes than Campbell Soup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.76% of users gave Flowers Foods an outperform vote while only 42.01% of users gave Campbell Soup an outperform vote.
Campbell Soup has higher revenue and earnings than Flowers Foods. Campbell Soup is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flowers Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Flowers Foods had 8 more articles in the media than Campbell Soup. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Flowers Foods and 2 mentions for Campbell Soup. Flowers Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Campbell Soup's score of 0.32 indicating that Campbell Soup is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Campbell Soup currently has a consensus target price of $46.38, suggesting a potential upside of 2.99%. Flowers Foods has a consensus target price of $24.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.61%. Given Flowers Foods' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Campbell Soup is more favorable than Flowers Foods.
Campbell Soup has a beta of 0.23, indicating that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowers Foods has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Campbell Soup beats Flowers Foods on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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