FLO vs. CPB, CAG, SMPL, NOMD, FRPT, LANC, RH, OLLI, NTCOY, and FIZZ
Should you be buying Flowers Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowers Foods include Campbell Soup (CPB), Conagra Brands (CAG), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Freshpet (FRPT), Lancaster Colony (LANC), RH (RH), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), Natura &Co (NTCOY), and National Beverage (FIZZ). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) and Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Campbell Soup presently has a consensus price target of $46.38, indicating a potential upside of 3.10%. Flowers Foods has a consensus price target of $24.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.77%. Given Flowers Foods' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Campbell Soup is more favorable than Flowers Foods.
52.4% of Campbell Soup shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.5% of Flowers Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 20.6% of Campbell Soup shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of Flowers Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Flowers Foods received 23 more outperform votes than Campbell Soup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.76% of users gave Flowers Foods an outperform vote while only 42.01% of users gave Campbell Soup an outperform vote.
Campbell Soup has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowers Foods has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Campbell Soup pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Flowers Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Campbell Soup pays out 57.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flowers Foods pays out 158.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Flowers Foods has raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years. Flowers Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Campbell Soup has higher revenue and earnings than Flowers Foods. Campbell Soup is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flowers Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Campbell Soup has a net margin of 8.26% compared to Campbell Soup's net margin of 2.42%. Flowers Foods' return on equity of 23.18% beat Campbell Soup's return on equity.
In the previous week, Flowers Foods had 4 more articles in the media than Campbell Soup. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Flowers Foods and 5 mentions for Campbell Soup. Flowers Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Campbell Soup's score of 0.11 indicating that Campbell Soup is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Campbell Soup beats Flowers Foods on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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