OceanFirst Financial (OCFC) Competitors

OceanFirst Financial (NASDAQ:OCFC) and Simply Good Foods (NASDAQ:SMPL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and media sentiment.

Do analysts prefer OCFC or SMPL?

OceanFirst Financial presently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.14%. Simply Good Foods has a consensus target price of $40.22, suggesting a potential upside of 6.72%. Given OceanFirst Financial's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe OceanFirst Financial is more favorable than Simply Good Foods.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
OceanFirst Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Simply Good Foods	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.56

Is OCFC or SMPL more profitable?

OceanFirst Financial has a net margin of 14.45% compared to Simply Good Foods' net margin of 10.40%. Simply Good Foods' return on equity of 10.25% beat OceanFirst Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
OceanFirst Financial	14.45%	5.75%	0.72%
Simply Good Foods	10.40%	10.25%	7.63%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of OCFC or SMPL?

71.0% of OceanFirst Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.4% of Simply Good Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of OceanFirst Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Simply Good Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is OCFC or SMPL a better dividend stock?

OceanFirst Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Simply Good Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. OceanFirst Financial pays out 48.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Simply Good Foods pays out 25.0% 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer OCFC or SMPL?

Simply Good Foods received 27 more outperform votes than OceanFirst Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.76% of users gave Simply Good Foods an outperform vote while only 55.95% of users gave OceanFirst Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
OceanFirst Financial	Outperform Votes 282 55.95%	Underperform Votes 222 44.05%
Simply Good Foods	Outperform Votes 309 67.76%	Underperform Votes 147 32.24%

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, OCFC or SMPL?

Simply Good Foods has higher revenue and earnings than OceanFirst Financial. OceanFirst Financial 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
OceanFirst Financial	$379.81M	2.44	$100.07M	$1.65	9.42
Simply Good Foods	$1.41B	2.70	$139.31M	$1.44	26.17

Does the media favor OCFC or SMPL?

In the previous week, Simply Good Foods had 19 more articles in the media than OceanFirst Financial. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Simply Good Foods and 13 mentions for OceanFirst Financial. Simply Good Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat OceanFirst Financial's score of 0.93 indicating that Simply Good Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
OceanFirst Financial	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Simply Good Foods	15 Very Positive mention(s)	8 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more risk & volatility, OCFC or SMPL?

OceanFirst Financial has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Simply Good Foods has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Simply Good Foods beats OceanFirst Financial on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.