FLO vs. PPC, SJM, CAG, CPB, SFD, POST, LANC, CALM, JJSF, and TR
Should you be buying Flowers Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowers Foods include Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Conagra Brands (CAG), Campbell's (CPB), Smithfield Foods (SFD), Post (POST), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), and Tootsie Roll Industries (TR). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Flowers Foods vs.
Pilgrim's Pride (NASDAQ:PPC) and Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.
16.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.4% of Flowers Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 82.6% of Pilgrim's Pride shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.6% of Flowers Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Pilgrim's Pride had 8 more articles in the media than Flowers Foods. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Pilgrim's Pride and 17 mentions for Flowers Foods. Pilgrim's Pride's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Flowers Foods' score of 1.11 indicating that Pilgrim's Pride is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pilgrim's Pride has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowers Foods has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pilgrim's Pride presently has a consensus target price of $48.40, suggesting a potential upside of 4.90%. Flowers Foods has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.66%. Given Flowers Foods' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Flowers Foods is more favorable than Pilgrim's Pride.
Pilgrim's Pride has a net margin of 6.08% compared to Flowers Foods' net margin of 4.86%. Pilgrim's Pride's return on equity of 32.83% beat Flowers Foods' return on equity.
Pilgrim's Pride has higher revenue and earnings than Flowers Foods. Pilgrim's Pride is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flowers Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Flowers Foods received 143 more outperform votes than Pilgrim's Pride when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.68% of users gave Flowers Foods an outperform vote while only 60.03% of users gave Pilgrim's Pride an outperform vote.
Summary
Pilgrim's Pride beats Flowers Foods on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FLO) was last updated on 5/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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