SPTN vs. UNFI, ANDE, SYY, CHEF, WILC, DIT, PFGC, SAH, FL, and WEN
Should you be buying SpartanNash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SpartanNash include United Natural Foods (UNFI), Andersons (ANDE), Sysco (SYY), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), G. Willi-Food International (WILC), Amcon Distributing (DIT), Performance Food Group (PFGC), Sonic Automotive (SAH), Foot Locker (FL), and Wendy's (WEN).
SpartanNash vs.
United Natural Foods (NYSE:UNFI) and SpartanNash (NASDAQ:SPTN) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
SpartanNash has a net margin of 0.00% compared to United Natural Foods' net margin of -0.30%. SpartanNash's return on equity of 8.98% beat United Natural Foods' return on equity.
United Natural Foods currently has a consensus price target of $27.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.67%. SpartanNash has a consensus price target of $10.00, indicating a potential downside of 46.58%. Given United Natural Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe United Natural Foods is more favorable than SpartanNash.
United Natural Foods has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SpartanNash has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
United Natural Foods received 377 more outperform votes than SpartanNash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.30% of users gave United Natural Foods an outperform vote while only 48.96% of users gave SpartanNash an outperform vote.
In the previous week, United Natural Foods had 34 more articles in the media than SpartanNash. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for United Natural Foods and 5 mentions for SpartanNash. SpartanNash's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat United Natural Foods' score of 0.93 indicating that SpartanNash is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
87.6% of United Natural Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of SpartanNash shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of United Natural Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of SpartanNash shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
SpartanNash has lower revenue, but higher earnings than United Natural Foods. SpartanNash is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Natural Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
United Natural Foods beats SpartanNash on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SPTN) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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