JBSS vs. FLO, JJSF, TR, THS, BGS, SENEA, HAIN, CVGW, LWAY, and FARM
Should you be buying John B. Sanfilippo & Son stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John B. Sanfilippo & Son include Flowers Foods (FLO), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), TreeHouse Foods (THS), B&G Foods (BGS), Seneca Foods (SENEA), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Calavo Growers (CVGW), Lifeway Foods (LWAY), and Farmer Bros. (FARM). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
John B. Sanfilippo & Son vs.
Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) and John B. Sanfilippo & Son (NASDAQ:JBSS) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation and dividends.
Flowers Foods has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John B. Sanfilippo & Son has a beta of 0.14, indicating that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Flowers Foods received 341 more outperform votes than John B. Sanfilippo & Son when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.71% of users gave John B. Sanfilippo & Son an outperform vote while only 61.83% of users gave Flowers Foods an outperform vote.
75.5% of Flowers Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of John B. Sanfilippo & Son shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.4% of Flowers Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of John B. Sanfilippo & Son shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Flowers Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. John B. Sanfilippo & Son pays an annual dividend of $0.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Flowers Foods pays out 84.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. John B. Sanfilippo & Son pays out 18.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flowers Foods has increased its dividend for 23 consecutive years. Flowers Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Flowers Foods has higher revenue and earnings than John B. Sanfilippo & Son. Flowers Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than John B. Sanfilippo & Son, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
John B. Sanfilippo & Son has a net margin of 4.90% compared to Flowers Foods' net margin of 4.70%. Flowers Foods' return on equity of 19.41% beat John B. Sanfilippo & Son's return on equity.
Flowers Foods presently has a consensus price target of $22.67, suggesting a potential upside of 16.75%. Given Flowers Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Flowers Foods is more favorable than John B. Sanfilippo & Son.
In the previous week, Flowers Foods and Flowers Foods both had 4 articles in the media. John B. Sanfilippo & Son's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Flowers Foods' score of 0.13 indicating that John B. Sanfilippo & Son is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Flowers Foods beats John B. Sanfilippo & Son on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:JBSS) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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