Suburban Propane Partners (SPH) Competitors

FirstCash (NASDAQ:FCFS) and Suburban Propane Partners (NYSE:SPH) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.

Is FCFS or SPH a better dividend stock?

FirstCash pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Suburban Propane Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. FirstCash pays out 26.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Suburban Propane Partners pays out 122.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has more volatility and risk, FCFS or SPH?

FirstCash has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Suburban Propane Partners has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of FCFS or SPH?

80.3% of FirstCash shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.9% of Suburban Propane Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.8% of FirstCash shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Suburban Propane Partners shares are owned by 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 FCFS or SPH more profitable?

FirstCash has a net margin of 7.64% compared to Suburban Propane Partners' net margin of 5.18%. FirstCash's return on equity of 14.99% beat Suburban Propane Partners' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FirstCash	7.64%	14.99%	6.94%
Suburban Propane Partners	5.18%	11.81%	2.98%

Do analysts recommend FCFS or SPH?

FirstCash presently has a consensus target price of $135.67, indicating a potential upside of 18.39%. Suburban Propane Partners has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.51%. Given FirstCash's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe FirstCash is more favorable than Suburban Propane Partners.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FirstCash	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75
Suburban Propane Partners	1 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the MarketBeat Community favor FCFS or SPH?

Suburban Propane Partners received 290 more outperform votes than FirstCash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.22% of users gave Suburban Propane Partners an outperform vote while only 42.22% of users gave FirstCash an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FirstCash	Outperform Votes 19 42.22%	Underperform Votes 26 57.78%
Suburban Propane Partners	Outperform Votes 309 57.22%	Underperform Votes 231 42.78%

Does the media favor FCFS or SPH?

In the previous week, FirstCash had 2 more articles in the media than Suburban Propane Partners. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for FirstCash and 2 mentions for Suburban Propane Partners. FirstCash's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Suburban Propane Partners' score of 0.77 indicating that FirstCash is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FirstCash	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Suburban Propane Partners	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, FCFS or SPH?

FirstCash has higher revenue and earnings than Suburban Propane Partners. FirstCash is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Suburban Propane Partners, 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
FirstCash	$3.39B	1.51	$258.82M	$5.73	20.00
Suburban Propane Partners	$1.33B	1.06	$74.17M	$1.06	20.53

Summary

FirstCash beats Suburban Propane Partners on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.