BU vs. BABY, TPK, SWP, MYLK, JTR, VPI, CYF, WLCO, NSP, and EATS
Should you be buying Burcon NutraScience stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Burcon NutraScience include Else Nutrition (BABY), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (TPK), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP), Planting Hope (MYLK), GreenSpace Brands (JTR), Vitality Products (VPI), Canyon Creek Food (CYF), Well Told (WLCO), Naturally Splendid Enterprises (NSP), and Eat Beyond Global (EATS). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods" industry.
Else Nutrition (CVE:BABY) and Burcon NutraScience (TSE:BU) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking and risk.
Burcon NutraScience has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Else Nutrition. Else Nutrition is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Burcon NutraScience, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Else Nutrition currently has a consensus target price of C$0.45, indicating a potential downside of 61.54%. Given Burcon NutraScience's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Else Nutrition is more favorable than Burcon NutraScience.
In the previous week, Else Nutrition had 1 more articles in the media than Burcon NutraScience. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Else Nutrition and 2 mentions for Burcon NutraScience. Else Nutrition's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Burcon NutraScience's score of 0.29 indicating that Burcon NutraScience is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Burcon NutraScience received 228 more outperform votes than Else Nutrition when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 81.58% of users gave Else Nutrition an outperform vote while only 67.80% of users gave Burcon NutraScience an outperform vote.
Burcon NutraScience's return on equity of 0.00% beat Else Nutrition's return on equity.
0.3% of Burcon NutraScience shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.8% of Burcon NutraScience shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Else Nutrition and Burcon NutraScience tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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