United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI), Whole Foods Market, Inc. (WFM), The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (HAIN): This Company Can Earn You Supernatural Profits

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Whole Foods’ price-to-free-cash-flow ratio is huge at 344.2 and United Natural’s is only minimally better at 319.6. United Natural has less exposure to the vagaries of commodity costs (save fuel) like The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAIN) or Annie’s. Hain Celestial’s price-to-free-cash-flow ratio is a negative 16.4. Annie’s is 86.0.

Annie’s is too rich, with its trailing P/E of 68.1. It has the smallest market cap of this bunch at $753.1 million but a net profit margin of 6.1%. You will pay almost twice The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAIN)’s price to sales of 2.2 for Annie’s at 4.3. And Hain has the highest net profit margin at 6.6%.

Paying it forward pays off

Whole Foods, Annie’s, and The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAIN) will all benefit from these healthy eating trends. It seems less risky, however, to invest in a distributor long term as success for any means success for United Natural.

United Natural is bending over backward with its marketing and retail solutions to make its clients more successful. Paying it forward will surely pay off for United Natural in the end.

The article This Company Can Earn You Supernatural Profits originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by AnnaLisa Kraft.

AnnaLisa Kraft has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Hain Celestial and Whole Foods Market. The Motley Fool owns shares of Hain Celestial and Whole Foods Market.

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