How The Simply Good Foods Company stacks up

SMPL · against 149 other Consumer Defensive companies listed in US-listed

Valuation

15/ 100

Near the bottom of its peers.

Ranked #133 of 150 · scores higher than 11% of peers

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

16 peers with a valuation score of 10–19, including SMPL · Click a bar to see the companies

Why valuation scores 15?

Weighted metrics compared with all Consumer Defensive companies.

Mainly because of its earnings yield, which is weaker than most Consumer Defensive peers.

Negative (a loss or cash outflow), so it counts as zero whatever the share price. Earnings yield: -18.0% vs peer median 4.5%
more free cash flow for the price paid: stronger than 72% of peers. Free cash flow yield: 10.8% vs peer median 6.2%
Negative (a loss or cash outflow), so it counts as zero whatever the share price. EBITDA yield: -15.6% vs peer median 8.7%

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
Earnings yieldHigher is better · 146 reported	-16.9%	3.7%	13%	30%
EBITDA yieldHigher is better · 151 reported	15.2%	9.0%	85%	50%
Free cash flow yieldHigher is better · 132 reported	10.8%	5.8%	78%	20%
Book yieldHigher is better · 145 reported	128.6%	39.9%	91%	Context only

Ranking by valuation score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around SMPL

Rank	Company	Market cap	Valuation	Overall
1	Afya LimitedAFYA · US-listed	933M USD	97	84
2	Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.NATR · US-listed	212M USD	93	72
2	Phoenix Education Partners, Inc.PXED · US-listed	843M USD	93	88
4	Smithfield Foods, Inc.SFD · US-listed	7.2B USD	92	72
5	BellRing Brands, Inc.BRBR · US-listed	1.1B USD	91	67
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129	Mission Produce, Inc.AVO · US-listed	963M USD	17	29
129	Coursera, Inc.COUR · US-listed	1.1B USD	17	31
131	General Mills, Inc.GIS · US-listed	18.2B USD	16	11
131	SNDL Inc.SNDL · US-listed	332M USD	16	43
133	The Simply Good Foods CompanySMPL · US-listed	1.1B USD	15	33
133	Utz Brands, Inc.UTZ · US-listed	2.1B USD	15	16
135	Westrock Coffee CompanyWEST · US-listed	925M USD	13	29
136	Vital Farms, Inc.VITL · US-listed	430M USD	12	32
137	Youdao, Inc.DAO · US-listed	2.4B USD	11	41

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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