JJSF vs. SJM, PPC, POST, LANC, FLO, CALM, TR, THS, JBSS, and BGS
Should you be buying J&J Snack Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J&J Snack Foods include J. M. Smucker (SJM), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Post (POST), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), TreeHouse Foods (THS), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), and B&G Foods (BGS). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
J&J Snack Foods (NASDAQ:JJSF) and J. M. Smucker (NYSE:SJM) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
J&J Snack Foods has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J. M. Smucker has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
J&J Snack Foods presently has a consensus price target of $195.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.74%. J. M. Smucker has a consensus price target of $134.79, indicating a potential upside of 17.23%. Given J&J Snack Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe J&J Snack Foods is more favorable than J. M. Smucker.
76.0% of J&J Snack Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of J. M. Smucker shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.2% of J&J Snack Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of J. M. Smucker shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, J. M. Smucker had 30 more articles in the media than J&J Snack Foods. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for J. M. Smucker and 2 mentions for J&J Snack Foods. J&J Snack Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat J. M. Smucker's score of 0.50 indicating that J&J Snack Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
J. M. Smucker has a net margin of 9.10% compared to J&J Snack Foods' net margin of 5.45%. J. M. Smucker's return on equity of 14.15% beat J&J Snack Foods' return on equity.
J&J Snack Foods pays an annual dividend of $2.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. J. M. Smucker pays an annual dividend of $4.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. J&J Snack Foods pays out 66.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J. M. Smucker pays out 59.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. J. M. Smucker is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
J. M. Smucker received 380 more outperform votes than J&J Snack Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.28% of users gave J. M. Smucker an outperform vote while only 58.30% of users gave J&J Snack Foods an outperform vote.
J. M. Smucker has higher revenue and earnings than J&J Snack Foods. J. M. Smucker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J&J Snack Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
J. M. Smucker beats J&J Snack Foods on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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