Analyzing Simply Good Foods (SMPL) & Its Competitors

Simply Good Foods (NASDAQ:SMPL) is one of 328 public companies in the “Food Products” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Simply Good Foods to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Simply Good Foods and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Simply Good Foods	$1.36 billion	$103.61 million	-6.58
Simply Good Foods Competitors	$6.82 billion	$702.59 million	-2,414.37

Simply Good Foods’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Simply Good Foods. Simply Good Foods is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Risk and Volatility

Simply Good Foods has a beta of 0.19, indicating that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Simply Good Foods’ peers have a beta of -3.83, indicating that their average share price is 483% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Simply Good Foods and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Simply Good Foods	1	10	2	0	2.08
Simply Good Foods Competitors	2435	8279	8358	401	2.35

Simply Good Foods presently has a consensus price target of $13.36, indicating a potential upside of 18.79%. As a group, “Food Products” companies have a potential upside of 18.82%. Given Simply Good Foods’ peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Simply Good Foods has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

88.5% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are owned by institutional investors. 8.8% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.8% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Simply Good Foods and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Simply Good Foods	-11.49%	9.36%	6.58%
Simply Good Foods Competitors	-13.54%	-450.68%	-2.55%

Summary

Simply Good Foods peers beat Simply Good Foods on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About Simply Good Foods

The Simply Good Foods Company operates as a consumer-packaged food and beverage company in North America and internationally. The company develops, markets, and sells snacks and meal replacements. It offers protein bars, ready-to-drink shakes, sweet and salty snacks, cookies, protein chips, and recipes under the Atkins and Quest brand names. The company also provides confectionery products, such as full-size and mini peanut butter cups, and fudgey brownie and gooey caramel candy bites, chocolatey coated peanut candies, and coconutty caramel candy bars under Atkins Endulge brand name.It distributes its products to various retail channels, such as mass merchandise, grocery and drug channels, club stores, convenience stores, gas stations, and other channels. The company also sells its products through e-commerce channels, including questnutrition.com, atkins.com, amazon.com and others. The Simply Good Foods Company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.