Financial Review: Wing Yip Food Holdings Group (NASDAQ:WYHG) versus Smithfield Foods (NASDAQ:SFD)

Smithfield Foods (NASDAQ:SFD) and Wing Yip Food Holdings Group (NASDAQ:WYHG) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Smithfield Foods and Wing Yip Food Holdings Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Smithfield Foods	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wing Yip Food Holdings Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Smithfield Foods and Wing Yip Food Holdings Group, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Smithfield Foods	0	2	4	1	2.86
Wing Yip Food Holdings Group	1	0	0	0	1.00

Smithfield Foods presently has a consensus target price of $28.90, indicating a potential upside of 23.40%. Given Smithfield Foods’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Smithfield Foods is more favorable than Wing Yip Food Holdings Group.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Smithfield Foods and Wing Yip Food Holdings Group”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Smithfield Foods	$14.14 billion	0.65	$872.70 million	$2.22	10.55
Wing Yip Food Holdings Group	$141.17 million	0.17	$11.25 million	N/A	N/A

Smithfield Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Wing Yip Food Holdings Group.

Risk & Volatility

Smithfield Foods has a beta of 0.12, suggesting that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wing Yip Food Holdings Group has a beta of -4.17, suggesting that its stock price is 517% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Smithfield Foods beats Wing Yip Food Holdings Group on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Smithfield Foods

Smithfield Foods, Inc. produces and markets a variety of fresh meat and packaged meats products both domestically and internationally. The Company operates in four segments: Pork, Hog Production, International and Corporate, each of which consists of a number of subsidiaries, joint ventures and other investments. The Pork segment consists mainly of its three wholly owned United States fresh pork and packaged meats subsidiaries: The Smithfield Packing Company, Inc. (Smithfield Packing), Farmland Foods, Inc. (Farmland Foods) and John Morrell Food Group (John Morrell). The Hog Production segment consists of the Company’s hog production operations located in the United States. On September 2012 (fiscal 2013), the Company acquired a 70% controlling interest in American Skin Food Group, LLC. Effective September 26, 2013, Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd merged with Smithfield Foods Inc, a producer and wholesaler of pork meat products.

About Wing Yip Food Holdings Group

Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Ltd. is a holding company. It engages in the business of processing, selling, and distributing cured meat products including cured pork sausages, cured pork meat, and other cured meat products such as cured chicken, cured duck, and cured fish; snack products including ready-to-eat sausages, jerky, duck necks, duck feet, and clay pot rice; and frozen meat products including frozen sausages, frozen beef patties, and frozen chicken breast fillets. The company was founded on April 24, 2015 and is headquartered in Zhongshan, China.