BRFS vs. SMPL, SAM, NOMD, NWL, IPAR, GO, JJSF, FIZZ, HELE, and UTZ
Should you be buying BRF stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BRF include Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Boston Beer (SAM), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Newell Brands (NWL), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Grocery Outlet (GO), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), National Beverage (FIZZ), Helen of Troy (HELE), and Utz Brands (UTZ). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Simply Good Foods (NASDAQ:SMPL) and BRF (NYSE:BRFS) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Simply Good Foods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BRF. BRF is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Simply Good Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Simply Good Foods has a net margin of 10.66% compared to Simply Good Foods' net margin of -2.29%. BRF's return on equity of 9.95% beat Simply Good Foods' return on equity.
Simply Good Foods presently has a consensus target price of $41.57, suggesting a potential upside of 22.16%. BRF has a consensus target price of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.70%. Given Simply Good Foods' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BRF is more favorable than Simply Good Foods.
Simply Good Foods has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BRF has a beta of 1.95, suggesting that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500.
88.5% of Simply Good Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.8% of BRF shares are held by institutional investors. 11.0% of Simply Good Foods shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of BRF shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Simply Good Foods had 5 more articles in the media than BRF. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Simply Good Foods and 2 mentions for BRF. Simply Good Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat BRF's score of 0.93 indicating that BRF is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BRF received 22 more outperform votes than Simply Good Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.19% of users gave Simply Good Foods an outperform vote while only 56.14% of users gave BRF an outperform vote.
Summary
Simply Good Foods beats BRF on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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