Flowers Foods (FLO) Competitors

Hormel Foods (NYSE:HRL) and Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.

Is HRL or FLO a better dividend stock?

Hormel Foods pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Flowers Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Hormel Foods pays out 80.7% 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 pays out 162.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hormel Foods has raised its dividend for 59 consecutive years and Flowers Foods has raised its dividend for 23 consecutive years.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, HRL or FLO?

Hormel Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Flowers Foods. Hormel Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flowers Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hormel Foods	$12.11B	1.45	$793.57M	$1.40	22.86
Flowers Foods	$5.09B	0.93	$123.42M	$0.59	37.92

Is HRL or FLO more profitable?

Hormel Foods has a net margin of 6.37% compared to Hormel Foods' net margin of 2.45%. Hormel Foods' return on equity of 18.35% beat Flowers Foods' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hormel Foods	6.37%	11.31%	6.47%
Flowers Foods	2.45%	18.35%	7.41%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor HRL or FLO?

Flowers Foods received 44 more outperform votes than Hormel Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.50% of users gave Flowers Foods an outperform vote while only 57.51% of users gave Hormel Foods an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Hormel Foods	Outperform Votes 448 57.51%	Underperform Votes 331 42.49%
Flowers Foods	Outperform Votes 492 61.50%	Underperform Votes 308 38.50%

Which has more volatility & risk, HRL or FLO?

Hormel Foods has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowers Foods has a beta of 0.36, meaning that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor HRL or FLO?

In the previous week, Flowers Foods had 3 more articles in the media than Hormel Foods. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Flowers Foods and 9 mentions for Hormel Foods. Flowers Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Hormel Foods' score of 0.46 indicating that Hormel Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Hormel Foods	8 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Flowers Foods	4 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of HRL or FLO?

41.0% of Hormel Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.5% of Flowers Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Hormel Foods shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Flowers Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts prefer HRL or FLO?

Hormel Foods presently has a consensus price target of $31.67, suggesting a potential downside of 1.07%. Flowers Foods has a consensus price target of $23.20, suggesting a potential upside of 3.71%. Given Hormel Foods' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Flowers Foods is more favorable than Hormel Foods.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hormel Foods	1 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.83
Flowers Foods	1 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.80

Summary

Flowers Foods beats Hormel Foods on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.