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Flowers Foods vs Simply Good Foods

FLO and SMPL side by side, both in food and kindred products. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.

How FLO and SMPL compare

Flowers Foods is the larger company, worth 1.2 times as much as Simply Good Foods ($1.3B against $1.1B).

Flowers Foods grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (2.5% versus −6.5% for Simply Good Foods).

Flowers Foods keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of 1.1% compared with −11.5% at Simply Good Foods.

Flowers Foods pays a dividend yielding 11.9%; Simply Good Foods does not pay one.

Flowers Foods scores higher on the StockData Score (14 against 9 for Simply Good Foods), 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.

MetricFLOSMPL
Size and price
Market cap$1.3B$1.1B
Share price$6.25$12.64
Change, 1 year−45.0%−34.2%
Change, 5 years−76.7%−67.6%
Beta (5Y)0.220.45
Employees10K282
StockData Score
Total score14 (better)9
Valuation score5 (better)3
Growth score11
Performance score2 (better)1
Health score14 (better)
Dividend score5 (better)0
Valuation
P/E24.0×–
P/S0.3× (better)0.8×
P/B1.0×0.8× (better)
EV/EBITDA9.5×–
P/FCF4.3× (better)7.0×
FCF yield23.1% (better)14.3%
Fair value$11.04$28.67
Margin of safety43.4%55.9% (better)
Growth
Revenue growth (TTM)2.5% (better)−6.5%
Revenue growth, 5Y average3.7%6.2% (better)
Net income growth (TTM)−74.9% (better)−250%
EPS growth (TTM)−75.0% (better)−266%
EPS growth, 5Y average−11.1%–
Profitability
Gross margin48.6% (better)32.6%
Operating margin2.7% (better)−13.2%
Net margin1.1% (better)−11.5%
FCF margin5.9%11.6% (better)
Return on equity4.0% (better)−9.6%
Return on invested capital3.2% (better)−7.8%
Financial health
Debt / equity1.270.24 (better)
Net debt / EBITDA5.23–
Interest coverage1.8× (better)−8.4×
Current ratio0.775.57 (better)
Altman Z-score1.862.01 (better)
Piotroski F-score5 (better)4
Dividends and buybacks
Dividend yield11.9%–
Payout ratio336%–
Years of dividend growth17–
Dividend growth, 5Y average4.5%–
Buyback yield0.29%19.4% (better)
Shareholder yield12.2%19.4% (better)
Ownership
Held by institutions104%99.0%
Held by insiders7.0%10.1%
Insider net buying, 12 months−$3.9M$1.1M (better)
Superinvestors holding–1
Short interest, % of float25.7%12.7%

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