SPB vs. WDFC, CENTA, ODC, PG, CL, KMB, CHD, CLX, CAE, and NOVT
Should you be buying Spectrum Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spectrum Brands include WD-40 (WDFC), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Oil-Dri Co. of America (ODC), Procter & Gamble (PG), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Church & Dwight (CHD), Clorox (CLX), CAE (CAE), and Novanta (NOVT).
WD-40 (NASDAQ:WDFC) and Spectrum Brands (NYSE:SPB) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
WD-40 pays an annual dividend of $3.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Spectrum Brands pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. WD-40 pays out 70.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spectrum Brands pays out 3.4% 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. WD-40 has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Spectrum Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
WD-40 currently has a consensus price target of $313.00, indicating a potential upside of 39.30%. Spectrum Brands has a consensus price target of $99.86, indicating a potential upside of 11.27%. Given Spectrum Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe WD-40 is more favorable than Spectrum Brands.
Spectrum Brands received 285 more outperform votes than WD-40 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.83% of users gave Spectrum Brands an outperform vote while only 53.08% of users gave WD-40 an outperform vote.
WD-40 has a beta of -0.02, suggesting that its share price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spectrum Brands has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Spectrum Brands had 1 more articles in the media than WD-40. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Spectrum Brands and 2 mentions for WD-40. WD-40's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Spectrum Brands' score of 1.37 indicating that Spectrum Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Spectrum Brands has a net margin of 68.11% compared to Spectrum Brands' net margin of 12.19%. Spectrum Brands' return on equity of 32.30% beat WD-40's return on equity.
91.5% of WD-40 shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of WD-40 shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Spectrum Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Spectrum Brands has higher revenue and earnings than WD-40. Spectrum Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WD-40, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Spectrum Brands beats WD-40 on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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