Performance Food Group (NYSE:PFGC – Get Free Report) and NextPlat (NASDAQ:NXPL – Get Free Report) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
96.9% of Performance Food Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of NextPlat shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Performance Food Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 46.1% of NextPlat shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Volatility & Risk
Performance Food Group has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextPlat has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Performance Food Group | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 2.92 |
| NextPlat | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
Performance Food Group currently has a consensus price target of $126.40, indicating a potential upside of 34.56%. NextPlat has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.65%. Given Performance Food Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Performance Food Group is more favorable than NextPlat.
Profitability
This table compares Performance Food Group and NextPlat’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Performance Food Group | 0.53% | 15.15% | 3.87% |
| NextPlat | -20.38% | -54.66% | -34.82% |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Performance Food Group and NextPlat”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Performance Food Group | $67.84 billion | 0.22 | $359.30 million | $2.29 | 41.02 |
| NextPlat | $54.32 million | 0.43 | -$10.46 million | ($3.67) | -2.33 |
Performance Food Group has higher revenue and earnings than NextPlat. NextPlat is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Performance Food Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Performance Food Group beats NextPlat on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Performance Food Group
Performance Food Group Company, through its subsidiaries, markets and distributes food and food-related products in the United States. It operates through three segments: Foodservice, Vistar, and Convenience. The company offers a range of frozen foods, groceries, candy, snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and other tobacco products; beef, pork, poultry, and seafood; and health and beauty care products. It also sells disposables, cleaning and kitchen supplies, and related products. In addition, the company offers value-added services, such as product selection and procurement, menu development, and operational strategy. It serves independent and chain restaurants, schools, business and industry locations, hospitals, vending distributors, office coffee service distributors, retailers, convenience stores, theaters, hospitality providers, concessionaires, airport gift shops, college bookstores, corrections facilities, and impulse locations, as well as franchises and other institutional customers. Performance Food Group Company was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.
About NextPlat
NextPlat Corp operates as a healthcare and e-commerce company in Europe, North America, South America, the Asia and Pacific, and Africa. The company operates full-service retail specialty services pharmacies that provides prescription pharmaceuticals prescription pharmaceuticals, third-party administration, risk and data management services, compounded medications, tele-pharmacy services, anti-retroviral medications, medication therapy management, contracted pharmacy services, and health practice risk management to healthcare organizations and providers, as well as supplies prescription medications to long-term care facilities. It also offers COVID-19 related diagnostics and vaccinations, and medication adherence packaging; and value-added services, such as prior authorization assistance, same-day home-medication delivery, on site provider consultation services, primary care reporting and analytics, and customized packaging solutions, as well as acquires and leases an e-commerce platform to collaborate with businesses to optimize their ability to sell their goods online. In addition, it operates e-commerce websites, as well as third-party e-commerce storefronts that provides mobile satellite services solutions for satellite-enabled voice, data, personnel and asset tracking, machine-to-machine, and internet of things connectivity services; voice, data communications, internet of things (IoT), and machine-to-machine services; tracking and monitoring solutions and services; satellite communications products; and GPS enabled emergency locator distress beacons. Further, it offers satellite tracking devices used to monitor the location, movements, and history of anything that moves; SolarTrack, a compact, lightweight, IoT tracking device powered by the sun; and GTCTrack, a subscription-based mapping and tracking portal. The company was formerly known as Orbsat Corp. and changed its name to NextPlat Corp in January 2022. NextPlat Corp is based in Coconut Grove, Florida.
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