Spectrum Brands (SPB) Competitors

WD-40 (NASDAQ:WDFC) and Spectrum Brands (NYSE:SPB) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.

Do analysts rate WDFC or SPB?

WD-40 presently has a consensus price target of $301.00, indicating a potential upside of 24.84%. Spectrum Brands has a consensus price target of $89.17, indicating a potential upside of 53.61%. Given Spectrum Brands' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Spectrum Brands is more favorable than WD-40.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
WD-40	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Spectrum Brands	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of WDFC or SPB?

91.5% of WD-40 shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of WD-40 shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Spectrum Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer WDFC or SPB?

Spectrum Brands received 287 more outperform votes than WD-40 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.46% of users gave Spectrum Brands an outperform vote while only 53.60% of users gave WD-40 an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
WD-40	Outperform Votes 283 53.60%	Underperform Votes 245 46.40%
Spectrum Brands	Outperform Votes 570 70.46%	Underperform Votes 239 29.54%

Which has more volatility and risk, WDFC or SPB?

WD-40 has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spectrum Brands has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.

Is WDFC or SPB a better dividend stock?

WD-40 pays an annual dividend of $3.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Spectrum Brands pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. WD-40 pays out 60.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spectrum Brands pays out 90.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. WD-40 has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years and Spectrum Brands has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, WDFC or SPB?

Spectrum Brands has higher revenue and earnings than WD-40. Spectrum Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WD-40, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
WD-40	$610.64M	5.35	$69.64M	$6.27	38.45
Spectrum Brands	$2.93B	0.50	$124.80M	$2.09	27.77

Is WDFC or SPB more profitable?

WD-40 has a net margin of 11.78% compared to Spectrum Brands' net margin of 4.01%. WD-40's return on equity of 31.68% beat Spectrum Brands' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
WD-40	11.78%	31.68%	15.93%
Spectrum Brands	4.01%	6.44%	3.43%

Does the media prefer WDFC or SPB?

In the previous week, Spectrum Brands had 6 more articles in the media than WD-40. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Spectrum Brands and 7 mentions for WD-40. WD-40's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Spectrum Brands' score of 1.50 indicating that WD-40 is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
WD-40	7 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Spectrum Brands	12 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

WD-40 beats Spectrum Brands on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.