Critical Comparison: BellRing Brands (BRBR) versus Its Peers

BellRing Brands (NYSE:BRBR) is one of 328 publicly-traded companies in the “Food Products” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare BellRing Brands to related businesses based on the strength of its profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.

Volatility and Risk

BellRing Brands has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BellRing Brands’ competitors have a beta of -3.84, indicating that their average share price is 484% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for BellRing Brands and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BellRing Brands	2	7	10	0	2.42
BellRing Brands Competitors	2457	8309	8387	405	2.34

BellRing Brands currently has a consensus target price of $18.57, indicating a potential upside of 83.56%. As a group, “Food Products” companies have a potential upside of 16.80%. Given BellRing Brands’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe BellRing Brands is more favorable than its competitors.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares BellRing Brands and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
BellRing Brands	$2.32 billion	$216.20 million	7.12
BellRing Brands Competitors	$7.13 billion	$712.67 million	-2,425.84

BellRing Brands’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than BellRing Brands. BellRing Brands is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares BellRing Brands and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BellRing Brands	7.28%	-33.04%	15.63%
BellRing Brands Competitors	-12.90%	-127.90%	-2.06%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

95.0% of BellRing Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.8% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of BellRing Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.4% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

BellRing Brands beats its competitors on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About BellRing Brands

BellRing Brands, Inc. is a consumer nutrition company focused on convenient, protein-rich products. Its portfolio includes Premier Protein, which offers ready-to-drink shakes, powders and nutrition bars, and Dymatize, which makes sports nutrition products such as protein powders and supplements. The company sells its products primarily in the United States and also serves consumers in international markets. Its products are available through a range of retail and online channels. BellRing became an independent publicly traded company in 2019 after its separation from Post Holdings.