ARKO vs. CVGW, YSG, LND, DJCO, WALD, BYND, SENEA, UNFI, TPB, and AFRI
Should you be buying Arko stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arko include Calavo Growers (CVGW), Yatsen (YSG), BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND), Daily Journal (DJCO), Waldencast (WALD), Beyond Meat (BYND), Seneca Foods (SENEA), United Natural Foods (UNFI), Turning Point Brands (TPB), and Forafric Global (AFRI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Arko (NASDAQ:ARKO) and Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Arko pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Calavo Growers pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Arko pays out 46.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Calavo Growers pays out -60.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Arko has higher revenue and earnings than Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arko, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
78.3% of Arko shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of Calavo Growers shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.6% of Arko shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Calavo Growers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Arko currently has a consensus target price of $7.33, indicating a potential upside of 29.79%. Calavo Growers has a consensus target price of $38.50, indicating a potential upside of 37.40%. Given Calavo Growers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Calavo Growers is more favorable than Arko.
Arko has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Calavo Growers has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Arko had 11 more articles in the media than Calavo Growers. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Arko and 3 mentions for Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Arko's score of 0.51 indicating that Calavo Growers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Calavo Growers received 298 more outperform votes than Arko when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.30% of users gave Calavo Growers an outperform vote while only 38.89% of users gave Arko an outperform vote.
Arko has a net margin of 0.39% compared to Calavo Growers' net margin of -1.32%. Arko's return on equity of 13.20% beat Calavo Growers' return on equity.
Summary
Arko beats Calavo Growers on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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