Glanbia (GLB) Competitors

Finsbury Food Group (LON:FIF) and Glanbia (LON:GLB) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and community ranking.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of FIF or GLB?

65.7% of Finsbury Food Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.8% of Glanbia shares are held by institutional investors. 24.5% of Finsbury Food Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.6% of Glanbia shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has better earnings & valuation, FIF or GLB?

Glanbia has higher revenue and earnings than Finsbury Food Group. Finsbury Food Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Glanbia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Finsbury Food Group	£413.74M	0.00	£10.77M	£0.08	N/A
Glanbia	£4.47B	0.01	£297.30M	£1.02	13.56

Which has more volatility and risk, FIF or GLB?

Finsbury Food Group has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Glanbia has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FIF or GLB?

Finsbury Food Group received 49 more outperform votes than Glanbia when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.00% of users gave Glanbia an outperform vote while only 52.92% of users gave Finsbury Food Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Finsbury Food Group	Outperform Votes 127 52.92%	Underperform Votes 113 47.08%
Glanbia	Outperform Votes 78 65.00%	Underperform Votes 42 35.00%

Is FIF or GLB more profitable?

Glanbia has a net margin of 6.58% compared to Finsbury Food Group's net margin of 2.60%. Glanbia's return on equity of 14.10% beat Finsbury Food Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Finsbury Food Group	2.60%	9.29%	5.12%
Glanbia	6.58%	14.10%	6.05%

Is FIF or GLB a better dividend stock?

Finsbury Food Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share. Glanbia pays an annual dividend of GBX 37 per share and has a dividend yield of 267.5%. Finsbury Food Group pays out 3,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Glanbia pays out 3,627.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Glanbia is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media prefer FIF or GLB?

In the previous week, Glanbia's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Finsbury Food Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Glanbia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Finsbury Food Group	Neutral
Glanbia	Positive

Summary

Glanbia beats Finsbury Food Group on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.