Performance Food Group (NYSE:PFGC – Get Free Report) and Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE – Get Free Report) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Performance Food Group and Andersons”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 | 0.23 | $359.30 million | $2.29 | 42.51 |
| Andersons | $10.94 billion | 0.20 | $95.71 million | $5.18 | 12.68 |
Performance Food Group has higher revenue and earnings than Andersons. Andersons 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.
Profitability
This table compares Performance Food Group and Andersons’ 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% |
| Andersons | 1.62% | 16.23% | 5.84% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings for Performance Food Group and Andersons, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Performance Food Group | 0 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 2.85 |
| Andersons | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3.20 |
Performance Food Group currently has a consensus target price of $126.40, suggesting a potential upside of 29.85%. Andersons has a consensus target price of $95.00, suggesting a potential upside of 44.64%. Given Andersons’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Andersons is more favorable than Performance Food Group.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
96.9% of Performance Food Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Andersons shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Performance Food Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Andersons shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Volatility and Risk
Performance Food Group has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Andersons has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Performance Food Group beats Andersons on 8 of the 15 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 Andersons
The Andersons, Inc. operates in trade, renewables, and nutrient and industrial sectors in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Egypt, Switzerland, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Trade, Renewables, and Nutrient & Industrial. The company’s Trade segment operates grain elevators; stores commodities; and provides grain marketing, risk management, and origination services, as well as sells commodities, such as corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, ethanol, and corn oil. This segment also engages in the commodity merchandising business, as well as offers logistics for physical commodities, such as whole grains, grain products, feed ingredients, domestic fuel products, and other agricultural commodities. Its Renewables segment produces, purchases, and sells ethanol, and co-products, as well as offers facility operations, risk management, and marketing services to the ethanol plants it invests in and operates. The company’s Nutrient & Industrial segment manufactures, distributes, and retails agricultural and related plant nutrients, liquid industrial products, corncob-based products, and pelleted lime and gypsum products, as well as turf fertilizer, pesticide, and herbicide products; and crop nutrients, crop protection chemicals, and seed products, as well as provides application and agronomic services to commercial and family farmers. In addition, this segment produces corncob-based products for laboratory animal bedding and private-label cat litter, as well as absorbents, blast cleaners, carriers, and polishers; professional lawn care products for golf course and turf care markets; fertilizer and weed, and pest control products; dry and liquid agricultural nutrients, pelleted lime, gypsum, and soil amendments; and micronutrients, as well as industrial products comprising nitrogen reagents, calcium nitrate, deicers, and dust abatement products. The Andersons, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is based in Maumee, Ohio.
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