SPTN vs. DIN, HZO, FLWS, MOV, UNFI, TAST, BJRI, CHUY, TITN, and ETD
Should you be buying SpartanNash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SpartanNash include Dine Brands Global (DIN), MarineMax (HZO), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), Movado Group (MOV), United Natural Foods (UNFI), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Chuy's (CHUY), Titan Machinery (TITN), and Ethan Allen Interiors (ETD).
Dine Brands Global (NYSE:DIN) and SpartanNash (NASDAQ:SPTN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Dine Brands Global received 372 more outperform votes than SpartanNash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.35% of users gave Dine Brands Global an outperform vote while only 49.03% of users gave SpartanNash an outperform vote.
Dine Brands Global has a net margin of 11.69% compared to Dine Brands Global's net margin of 0.54%. Dine Brands Global's return on equity of 9.86% beat SpartanNash's return on equity.
Dine Brands Global currently has a consensus target price of $59.43, indicating a potential upside of 31.19%. SpartanNash has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.70%. Given SpartanNash's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Dine Brands Global is more favorable than SpartanNash.
In the previous week, Dine Brands Global had 6 more articles in the media than SpartanNash. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Dine Brands Global and 3 mentions for SpartanNash. SpartanNash's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Dine Brands Global's score of 0.00 indicating that Dine Brands Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dine Brands Global pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. SpartanNash pays an annual dividend of $0.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Dine Brands Global pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SpartanNash pays out 58.0% 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. SpartanNash has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Dine Brands Global is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Dine Brands Global has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SpartanNash has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
92.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of SpartanNash shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of SpartanNash shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Dine Brands Global has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SpartanNash. Dine Brands Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SpartanNash, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Dine Brands Global beats SpartanNash on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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