VITL vs. FLO, SMPL, NOMD, BGS, HAIN, OTLY, BYND, BRLS, SOWG, and OXUS
Should you be buying Vital Farms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vital Farms include Flowers Foods (FLO), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Nomad Foods (NOMD), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Oatly Group (OTLY), Beyond Meat (BYND), Borealis Foods (BRLS), Sow Good (SOWG), and Oxus Acquisition (OXUS). These companies are all part of the "food & kindred products" industry.
Vital Farms (NASDAQ:VITL) and Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Vital Farms has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowers Foods has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
98.6% of Vital Farms shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.5% of Flowers Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 30.2% of Vital Farms shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Flowers Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Vital Farms had 1 more articles in the media than Flowers Foods. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Vital Farms and 8 mentions for Flowers Foods. Vital Farms' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Flowers Foods' score of 0.67 indicating that Vital Farms is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vital Farms currently has a consensus price target of $34.40, indicating a potential downside of 16.87%. Flowers Foods has a consensus price target of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.40%. Given Flowers Foods' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Flowers Foods is more favorable than Vital Farms.
Vital Farms has a net margin of 7.48% compared to Flowers Foods' net margin of 2.45%. Vital Farms' return on equity of 19.58% beat Flowers Foods' return on equity.
Flowers Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Vital Farms. Flowers Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vital Farms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Flowers Foods received 471 more outperform votes than Vital Farms when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.58% of users gave Flowers Foods an outperform vote while only 38.89% of users gave Vital Farms an outperform vote.
Summary
Vital Farms beats Flowers Foods on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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