EDUC vs. RGF, WVVI, DALN, VWE, BRFH, SDOT, NCRA, DTCK, PETZ, and XXII
Should you be buying Educational Development stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Educational Development include Real Good Food (RGF), Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVVI), DallasNews (DALN), Vintage Wine Estates (VWE), Barfresh Food Group (BRFH), Sadot Group (SDOT), Nocera (NCRA), Davis Commodities (DTCK), TDH (PETZ), and 22nd Century Group (XXII). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Real Good Food (NASDAQ:RGF) and Educational Development (NASDAQ:EDUC) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Educational Development received 192 more outperform votes than Real Good Food when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.71% of users gave Real Good Food an outperform vote while only 80.63% of users gave Educational Development an outperform vote.
Real Good Food has a beta of 0.08, indicating that its share price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Educational Development has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Educational Development has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Real Good Food. Real Good Food is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Educational Development, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.6% of Real Good Food shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.6% of Educational Development shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.6% of Real Good Food shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.2% of Educational Development shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Educational Development had 69 more articles in the media than Real Good Food. MarketBeat recorded 71 mentions for Educational Development and 2 mentions for Real Good Food. Educational Development's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Real Good Food's score of 0.21 indicating that Real Good Food is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Real Good Food presently has a consensus target price of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 848.77%. Given Educational Development's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Real Good Food is more favorable than Educational Development.
Educational Development has a net margin of 1.07% compared to Educational Development's net margin of -9.71%. Real Good Food's return on equity of 1.20% beat Educational Development's return on equity.
Summary
Educational Development beats Real Good Food on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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