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AMCON Distributing vs Performance Food

DIT and PFGC side by side, both in groceries and related products. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.

How DIT and PFGC compare

Performance Food is the larger company, worth 256 times as much as AMCON Distributing ($15.6B against $61.0M).

On earnings, AMCON Distributing is cheaper: it trades at 33.0× trailing earnings, against 43.3× for Performance Food.

AMCON Distributing grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (7.5% versus 7.2% for Performance Food).

Performance Food keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of 0.53% compared with 0.06% at AMCON Distributing.

AMCON Distributing pays a dividend yielding 0.77%; Performance Food does not pay one.

AMCON Distributing scores higher on the StockData Score (15 against 9 for Performance Food), which adds up 30 checks on valuation, growth, past performance, financial health and dividends.

Key numbers

A dot marks the better figure where higher or lower is clearly better.

MetricDITPFGC
Size and price
Market cap$61.0M$15.6B
Share price$62.50$99.05
Change, 1 year−19.5%0.70%
Change, 5 years−26.8%104%
Beta (5Y)0.150.97
Employees75644K
StockData Score
Total score15 (better)9
Valuation score4 (better)1
Growth score3 (better)2
Performance score02 (better)
Health score5 (better)4
Dividend score3 (better)0
Valuation
P/E33.0× (better)43.3×
P/S0.0× (better)0.2×
P/B0.5× (better)3.2×
EV/EBITDA2.8× (better)12.1×
P/FCF22.4×15.2× (better)
FCF yield4.5%6.6% (better)
Fair value$241.82$86.47
Margin of safety74.2% (better)−14.5%
Growth
Revenue growth (TTM)7.5% (better)7.2%
Revenue growth, 5Y average13.1%17.4% (better)
Net income growth (TTM)36.8% (better)5.6%
EPS growth (TTM)32.4% (better)5.0%
EPS growth, 5Y average−37.6%50.2% (better)
Profitability
Gross margin6.3%11.9% (better)
Operating margin0.44%1.3% (better)
Net margin0.06%0.53% (better)
FCF margin0.09%1.5% (better)
Return on equity1.6%7.7% (better)
Return on invested capital7.0% (better)6.7%
Financial health
Debt / equity0.04 (better)1.02
Net debt / EBITDA0.18 (better)2.89
Interest coverage1.3×2.1× (better)
Current ratio2.75 (better)1.51
Altman Z-score8.68 (better)4.74
Piotroski F-score55
Dividends and buybacks
Dividend yield0.77%–
Payout ratio36.4%–
Years of dividend growth0–
Dividend growth, 5Y average0.00%–
Buyback yield–0.01%
Shareholder yield0.77% (better)0.01%
Ownership
Held by institutions10.8%101%
Held by insiders48.7%2.0%
Insider net buying, 12 months–−$28.0M
Superinvestors holding–3
Short interest, % of float0.16%3.2%

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