Relatively High Company Efficiency Detected in Shares of Andersons in the Food Distributors Industry (ANDE, NAFC, SYY, UNFI, SPTN)
Below are the top five most-efficient companies in the Food Distributors industry as ranked by Revenue Per Employee (RPE). Analysts use RPE as a measure to compare the productivity of companies in the same industry.
Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE) ranks first with an RPE of $2.6M; Nash Finch (NASDAQ:NAFC) ranks second with an RPE of $1.09M; and Sysco (NYSE:SYY) ranks third with an RPE of $0.85M.
United Natural Foods (NASDAQ:UNFI) follows with an RPE of $0.67M and Spartan Stores (NASDAQ:SPTN) rounds out the top five with an RPE of $0.62M.
SmarTrend currently has shares of Spartan Stores in an Downtrend and issued the Downtrend alert on July 28, 2011 at $18.39. The stock has fallen 17.7% since the Downtrend alert was issued.