VSTS vs. CENT, CENTA, NHTC, HYFM, EDUC, POST, BROS, FRPT, DAR, and LANC
Should you be buying Vestis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vestis include Central Garden & Pet (CENT), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Natural Health Trends (NHTC), Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM), Educational Development (EDUC), Post (POST), Dutch Bros (BROS), Freshpet (FRPT), Darling Ingredients (DAR), and Lancaster Colony (LANC).
Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENT) and Vestis (NYSE:VSTS) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Central Garden & Pet currently has a consensus price target of $53.50, indicating a potential upside of 27.90%. Vestis has a consensus price target of $16.38, indicating a potential upside of 33.70%. Given Central Garden & Pet's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vestis is more favorable than Central Garden & Pet.
In the previous week, Vestis had 7 more articles in the media than Central Garden & Pet. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Vestis and 7 mentions for Central Garden & Pet. Central Garden & Pet's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Vestis' score of 0.17 indicating that Vestis is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
16.1% of Central Garden & Pet shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Vestis shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.5% of Central Garden & Pet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Central Garden & Pet received 241 more outperform votes than Vestis when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.76% of users gave Central Garden & Pet an outperform vote while only 52.63% of users gave Vestis an outperform vote.
Vestis has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Central Garden & Pet.
Central Garden & Pet has a net margin of 4.49% compared to Central Garden & Pet's net margin of 0.00%. Vestis' return on equity of 11.30% beat Central Garden & Pet's return on equity.
Summary
Central Garden & Pet beats Vestis on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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