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. M. Smucker (NYSE:SJM) and J&J Snack Foods (NASDAQ:JJSF) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, risk, media sentiment and earnings.
J. M. Smucker received 378 more outperform votes than J&J Snack Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.27% 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 currently has a consensus target price of $136.07, indicating a potential upside of 21.87%. J&J Snack Foods has a consensus target price of $195.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.85%. Given J&J Snack Foods' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe J. M. Smucker is more favorable than J&J Snack Foods.
81.7% of J. M. Smucker shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.0% of J&J Snack Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of J. M. Smucker shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.2% of J&J Snack Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
J. M. Smucker has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J&J Snack Foods has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, J. M. Smucker had 6 more articles in the media than J&J Snack Foods. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for J. M. Smucker and 4 mentions for J&J Snack Foods. J&J Snack Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat J. M. Smucker's score of 0.56 indicating that J. M. Smucker is being referred to more favorably in the media.
J&J Snack Foods has lower revenue, but higher earnings than J. M. Smucker. 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.
J. M. Smucker pays an annual dividend of $4.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. 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 out -481.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J&J Snack Foods pays out 66.2% 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 has raised its dividend for 26 consecutive years and J&J Snack Foods has raised its dividend for 19 consecutive years. J. M. Smucker is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
J&J Snack Foods has a net margin of 5.45% compared to J&J Snack Foods' net margin of -1.24%. J&J Snack Foods' return on equity of 14.29% beat J. M. Smucker's return on equity.
Summary
J. M. Smucker beats J&J Snack Foods on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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