JJSF vs. SJM, PPC, POST, LANC, FLO, CALM, TR, THS, JBSS, and BGS
Should you be buying J&J Snack Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J&J Snack Foods include J. M. Smucker (SJM), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Post (POST), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), TreeHouse Foods (THS), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), and B&G Foods (BGS). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
J&J Snack Foods (NASDAQ:JJSF) and J. M. Smucker (NYSE:SJM) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
J&J Snack Foods has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J. M. Smucker has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
J&J Snack Foods has a net margin of 5.45% compared to J. M. Smucker's net margin of -1.24%. J. M. Smucker's return on equity of 14.29% beat J&J Snack Foods' return on equity.
J&J Snack Foods currently has a consensus target price of $195.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.85%. J. M. Smucker has a consensus target price of $136.07, indicating a potential upside of 21.88%. Given J. M. Smucker's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe J. M. Smucker is more favorable than J&J Snack Foods.
J&J Snack Foods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than J. M. Smucker. J. M. Smucker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J&J Snack Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
76.0% of J&J Snack Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of J. M. Smucker shares are held by institutional investors. 22.2% of J&J Snack Foods shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of J. M. Smucker shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, J. M. Smucker had 5 more articles in the media than J&J Snack Foods. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for J. M. Smucker and 4 mentions for J&J Snack Foods. J. M. Smucker's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat J&J Snack Foods' score of 0.56 indicating that J. M. Smucker is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
J&J Snack Foods pays an annual dividend of $2.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. J. M. Smucker pays an annual dividend of $4.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. J&J Snack Foods pays out 66.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J. M. Smucker pays out -481.8% 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. J. M. Smucker is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
J. M. Smucker received 378 more outperform votes than J&J Snack Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.27% of users gave J. M. Smucker an outperform vote while only 58.30% of users gave J&J Snack Foods an outperform vote.
Summary
J. M. Smucker beats J&J Snack Foods on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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