CDZI vs. HFFG, PRPL, VFF, ALCO, FREE, TDUP, BRID, BRLS, VGII, and PCYO
Should you be buying Cadiz stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cadiz include HF Foods Group (HFFG), Purple Innovation (PRPL), Village Farms International (VFF), Alico (ALCO), Whole Earth Brands (FREE), ThredUp (TDUP), Bridgford Foods (BRID), Borealis Foods (BRLS), Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II (VGII), and Pure Cycle (PCYO).
HF Foods Group (NASDAQ:HFFG) and Cadiz (NASDAQ:CDZI) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
24.0% of HF Foods Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Cadiz shares are held by institutional investors. 7.0% of HF Foods Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Cadiz shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
HF Foods Group has higher revenue and earnings than Cadiz. Cadiz is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HF Foods Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HF Foods Group has a beta of 1.79, suggesting that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadiz has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cadiz received 203 more outperform votes than HF Foods Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.52% of users gave Cadiz an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave HF Foods Group an outperform vote.
HF Foods Group has a net margin of 0.27% compared to HF Foods Group's net margin of -1,579.41%. Cadiz's return on equity of 7.62% beat HF Foods Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Cadiz had 3 more articles in the media than HF Foods Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Cadiz and 3 mentions for HF Foods Group. HF Foods Group's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Cadiz's score of 0.31 indicating that Cadiz is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
HF Foods Group beats Cadiz on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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