OTLY vs. LWAY, VITL, BGS, HAIN, BYND, SOWG, BRLS, OXUS, BHIL, and RGF
Should you be buying Oatly Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oatly Group include Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Vital Farms (VITL), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Beyond Meat (BYND), Sow Good (SOWG), Borealis Foods (BRLS), Oxus Acquisition (OXUS), Benson Hill (BHIL), and Real Good Food (RGF).
Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ:LWAY) and Oatly Group (NASDAQ:OTLY) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Lifeway Foods has a net margin of 7.77% compared to Lifeway Foods' net margin of -49.19%. Oatly Group's return on equity of 22.34% beat Lifeway Foods' return on equity.
In the previous week, Lifeway Foods and Lifeway Foods both had 2 articles in the media. Oatly Group's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Lifeway Foods' score of 0.41 indicating that Lifeway Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lifeway Foods presently has a consensus price target of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 82.93%. Oatly Group has a consensus price target of $2.11, indicating a potential upside of 109.34%. Given Lifeway Foods' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Oatly Group is more favorable than Lifeway Foods.
Lifeway Foods received 261 more outperform votes than Oatly Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.07% of users gave Lifeway Foods an outperform vote while only 41.84% of users gave Oatly Group an outperform vote.
Lifeway Foods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Oatly Group. Oatly Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lifeway Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
36.4% of Lifeway Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.2% of Oatly Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.8% of Lifeway Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Oatly Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lifeway Foods has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oatly Group has a beta of 2.15, meaning that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lifeway Foods beats Oatly Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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