SPTN vs. ANDE, CHEF, UNFI, CORE, SYY, WILC, PFGC, PSMT, TRIP, and ARHS
Should you be buying SpartanNash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SpartanNash include Andersons (ANDE), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), United Natural Foods (UNFI), Core-Mark (CORE), Sysco (SYY), G. Willi-Food International (WILC), Performance Food Group (PFGC), PriceSmart (PSMT), Tripadvisor (TRIP), and Arhaus (ARHS).
SpartanNash (NASDAQ:SPTN) and Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Andersons has a net margin of 0.89% compared to SpartanNash's net margin of 0.56%. SpartanNash's return on equity of 9.22% beat Andersons' return on equity.
In the previous week, SpartanNash had 6 more articles in the media than Andersons. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for SpartanNash and 12 mentions for Andersons. Andersons' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat SpartanNash's score of 0.39 indicating that Andersons is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SpartanNash has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Andersons has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Andersons has higher revenue and earnings than SpartanNash. SpartanNash is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Andersons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Andersons received 48 more outperform votes than SpartanNash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.71% of users gave Andersons an outperform vote while only 48.93% of users gave SpartanNash an outperform vote.
SpartanNash pays an annual dividend of $0.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Andersons pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. SpartanNash pays out 58.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Andersons pays out 21.5% 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.
84.6% of SpartanNash shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Andersons shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of SpartanNash shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Andersons shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SpartanNash currently has a consensus price target of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.78%. Andersons has a consensus price target of $62.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.41%. Given Andersons' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Andersons is more favorable than SpartanNash.
Summary
Andersons beats SpartanNash on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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