SMPL vs. NOMD, FLO, VITL, BGS, HAIN, BYND, BRBR, CPB, CAG, and IPAR
Should you be buying Simply Good Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Simply Good Foods include Nomad Foods (NOMD), Flowers Foods (FLO), Vital Farms (VITL), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Beyond Meat (BYND), BellRing Brands (BRBR), Campbell Soup (CPB), Conagra Brands (CAG), and Inter Parfums (IPAR).
Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD) and Simply Good Foods (NASDAQ:SMPL) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Nomad Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Simply Good Foods. Nomad Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Simply Good Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Nomad Foods had 3 more articles in the media than Simply Good Foods. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Nomad Foods and 4 mentions for Simply Good Foods. Nomad Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Simply Good Foods' score of 0.98 indicating that Simply Good Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
75.3% of Nomad Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.5% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Nomad Foods currently has a consensus target price of $24.33, suggesting a potential upside of 36.40%. Simply Good Foods has a consensus target price of $40.29, suggesting a potential upside of 9.00%. Given Simply Good Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Nomad Foods is more favorable than Simply Good Foods.
Simply Good Foods received 44 more outperform votes than Nomad Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.02% of users gave Simply Good Foods an outperform vote while only 62.32% of users gave Nomad Foods an outperform vote.
Nomad Foods has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Simply Good Foods has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Simply Good Foods has a net margin of 11.12% compared to Simply Good Foods' net margin of 6.10%. Nomad Foods' return on equity of 10.12% beat Simply Good Foods' return on equity.
Summary
Simply Good Foods beats Nomad Foods on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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