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 business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
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.
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. SpartanNash's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Andersons' score of 0.54 indicating that SpartanNash is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Andersons shares are held by 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 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 56.1% 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.
SpartanNash has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Andersons has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SpartanNash currently has a consensus target price of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.78%. Andersons has a consensus target price of $62.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.41%. Given Andersons' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Andersons is more favorable than SpartanNash.
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.
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.
Summary
Andersons beats SpartanNash on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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