MED vs. MAMA, AFRI, PLIN, ALCO, FREE, CDZI, CBUS, HFFG, LMNR, and PRPL
Should you be buying Medifast stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Medifast include Mama's Creations (MAMA), Forafric Global (AFRI), China Xiangtai Food (PLIN), Alico (ALCO), Whole Earth Brands (FREE), Cadiz (CDZI), Cibus (CBUS), HF Foods Group (HFFG), Limoneira (LMNR), and Purple Innovation (PRPL). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Mama's Creations (NASDAQ:MAMA) and Medifast (NYSE:MED) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
In the previous week, Medifast had 1 more articles in the media than Mama's Creations. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Medifast and 4 mentions for Mama's Creations. Medifast's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Mama's Creations' score of 0.82 indicating that Mama's Creations is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mama's Creations has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Medifast has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Medifast has higher revenue and earnings than Mama's Creations. Medifast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mama's Creations, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Medifast has a net margin of 7.55% compared to Medifast's net margin of 6.35%. Medifast's return on equity of 39.00% beat Mama's Creations' return on equity.
45.2% of Mama's Creations shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Medifast shares are held by institutional investors. 10.0% of Mama's Creations shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Medifast shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Medifast received 377 more outperform votes than Mama's Creations when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Mama's Creations an outperform vote while only 63.94% of users gave Medifast an outperform vote.
Mama's Creations presently has a consensus target price of $7.88, indicating a potential upside of 13.64%. Medifast has a consensus target price of $53.50, indicating a potential upside of 128.73%. Given Mama's Creations' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Medifast is more favorable than Mama's Creations.
Summary
Medifast beats Mama's Creations on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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