JJSF vs. GO, UTZ, VSTS, HELE, NWL, NOMD, WDFC, TBBB, DNUT, and CCU
Should you be buying J&J Snack Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J&J Snack Foods include Grocery Outlet (GO), Utz Brands (UTZ), Vestis (VSTS), Helen of Troy (HELE), Newell Brands (NWL), Nomad Foods (NOMD), WD-40 (WDFC), BBB Foods (TBBB), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), and Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (CCU). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
J&J Snack Foods (NASDAQ:JJSF) and Grocery Outlet (NASDAQ:GO) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
J&J Snack Foods presently has a consensus price target of $195.00, suggesting a potential upside of 42.68%. Grocery Outlet has a consensus price target of $31.44, suggesting a potential upside of 20.15%. Given J&J Snack Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe J&J Snack Foods is more favorable than Grocery Outlet.
J&J Snack Foods has a net margin of 5.11% compared to Grocery Outlet's net margin of 2.00%. J&J Snack Foods' return on equity of 9.98% beat Grocery Outlet's return on equity.
J&J Snack Foods received 279 more outperform votes than Grocery Outlet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.22% of users gave J&J Snack Foods an outperform vote while only 30.99% of users gave Grocery Outlet an outperform vote.
76.0% of J&J Snack Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Grocery Outlet shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.2% of J&J Snack Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Grocery Outlet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
J&J Snack Foods has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grocery Outlet has a beta of 0.1, meaning that its share price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Grocery Outlet has higher revenue and earnings than J&J Snack Foods. Grocery Outlet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J&J Snack Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Grocery Outlet had 3 more articles in the media than J&J Snack Foods. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Grocery Outlet and 1 mentions for J&J Snack Foods. J&J Snack Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Grocery Outlet's score of 0.59 indicating that J&J Snack Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
J&J Snack Foods beats Grocery Outlet on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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