RKDA vs. SANW, SISI, AAGR, YTEN, EDBL, CLXT, EVGN, CGA, MBII, and CTVA
Should you be buying Arcadia Biosciences stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arcadia Biosciences include S&W Seed (SANW), Shineco (SISI), African Agriculture (AAGR), Yield10 Bioscience (YTEN), Edible Garden (EDBL), Calyxt (CLXT), Evogene (EVGN), China Green Agriculture (CGA), Marrone Bio Innovations (MBII), and Corteva (CTVA).
S&W Seed (NASDAQ:SANW) and Arcadia Biosciences (NASDAQ:RKDA) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
61.7% of S&W Seed shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.7% of Arcadia Biosciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of S&W Seed shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Arcadia Biosciences shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
S&W Seed has higher revenue and earnings than Arcadia Biosciences. Arcadia Biosciences is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S&W Seed, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
S&W Seed received 63 more outperform votes than Arcadia Biosciences when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.05% of users gave S&W Seed an outperform vote while only 57.93% of users gave Arcadia Biosciences an outperform vote.
Arcadia Biosciences has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 85.19%. Given S&W Seed's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Arcadia Biosciences is more favorable than S&W Seed.
S&W Seed has a net margin of -36.60% compared to S&W Seed's net margin of -129.74%. Arcadia Biosciences' return on equity of -33.78% beat S&W Seed's return on equity.
S&W Seed has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arcadia Biosciences has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Arcadia Biosciences had 9 more articles in the media than S&W Seed. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Arcadia Biosciences and 5 mentions for S&W Seed. Arcadia Biosciences' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat S&W Seed's score of 0.75 indicating that S&W Seed is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
S&W Seed beats Arcadia Biosciences on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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