How The Simply Good Foods Company stacks up

SMPL · against 151 other Consumer Defensive companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

2/ 100

Near the bottom of its peers.

Ranked #142 of 152 · scores higher than 5% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

24 peers with a profitability score of 0–9, including SMPL · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 2?

Weighted metrics compared with all Consumer Defensive companies.

Mainly because of its return on assets, operating margin and return on invested capital, which are weaker than most Consumer Defensive peers.

a lower return on assets: weaker than 98% of peers. Return on assets: -9.6% vs peer median 4.0%
a thinner operating margin: weaker than 97% of peers. Operating margin: -17.1% vs peer median 7.6%
a lower return on invested capital: weaker than 93% of peers. Return on invested capital: -11.1% vs peer median 7.7%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = SMPL, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	SMPL	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 147 reported	-11.1%	8.4%	10%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 153 reported	-17.1%	5.9%	5%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 152 reported	-9.6%	4.3%	6%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 144 reported	-12.2%	10.2%	14%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 154 reported	33.3%	35.5%	46%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around SMPL

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Altria Group, Inc.MO · US-listed	128.5B USD	99	46
1	Philip Morris International Inc.PM · US-listed	324.2B USD	99	54
1	Phoenix Education Partners, Inc.PXED · US-listed	843M USD	99	88
4	The Vita Coco Company, Inc.COCO · US-listed	3.5B USD	98	73
5	National Beverage Corp.FIZZ · US-listed	3.4B USD	97	54
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139	Once Upon A Farm, PBCOFRM · US-listed	400M USD	3	34
139	Oatly Group ABOTLY · US-listed	253M USD	3	18
142	Gaotu Techedu Inc.GOTU · US-listed	536M USD	2	39
142	The Boston Beer Company, Inc.SAM · US-listed	2.2B USD	2	22
142	The Simply Good Foods CompanySMPL · US-listed	1.1B USD	2	33
142	Molson Coors Beverage CompanyTAP-A · US-listed	8.2B USD	2	17
146	Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.GO · US-listed	1.3B USD	1	23
147	Beyond Meat, Inc.BYND · US-listed	125M USD	0	3
147	Coursera, Inc.COUR · US-listed	1.1B USD	0	31

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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