FLO vs. HAIN, CPB, CAG, SMPL, NOMD, OTLY, LANC, RH, PPC, and NYT
Should you be buying Flowers Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowers Foods include The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Campbell Soup (CPB), Conagra Brands (CAG), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Oatly Group (OTLY), Lancaster Colony (LANC), RH (RH), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), and New York Times (NYT). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Flowers Foods vs.
Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) and The Hain Celestial Group (NASDAQ:HAIN) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Flowers Foods has higher revenue and earnings than The Hain Celestial Group. Flowers Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Hain Celestial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Flowers Foods has a net margin of 4.75% compared to The Hain Celestial Group's net margin of 2.45%. Flowers Foods' return on equity of 18.77% beat The Hain Celestial Group's return on equity.
Flowers Foods has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Hain Celestial Group has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Flowers Foods currently has a consensus price target of $26.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.80%. The Hain Celestial Group has a consensus price target of $24.90, suggesting a potential upside of 50.73%. Given The Hain Celestial Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe The Hain Celestial Group is more favorable than Flowers Foods.
66.8% of Flowers Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of The Hain Celestial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of Flowers Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of The Hain Celestial Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Flowers Foods had 7 more articles in the media than The Hain Celestial Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Flowers Foods and 3 mentions for The Hain Celestial Group. The Hain Celestial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Flowers Foods' score of 0.64 indicating that The Hain Celestial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
The Hain Celestial Group received 325 more outperform votes than Flowers Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.81% of users gave The Hain Celestial Group an outperform vote while only 62.27% of users gave Flowers Foods an outperform vote.
Summary
Flowers Foods and The Hain Celestial Group tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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