COCO vs. WEST, NAPA, BRCC, TLRY, CHEF, VSTS, UVV, VITL, AGRO, and JBSS
Should you be buying Vita Coco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vita Coco include Westrock Coffee (WEST), Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA), BRC (BRCC), Tilray (TLRY), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), Vestis (VSTS), Universal (UVV), Vital Farms (VITL), Adecoagro (AGRO), and John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Vita Coco (NASDAQ:COCO) and Westrock Coffee (NASDAQ:WEST) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
Vita Coco presently has a consensus target price of $29.67, suggesting a potential upside of 8.11%. Westrock Coffee has a consensus target price of $12.33, suggesting a potential upside of 14.73%. Given Westrock Coffee's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Westrock Coffee is more favorable than Vita Coco.
Vita Coco has a beta of 0.18, suggesting that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westrock Coffee has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Westrock Coffee had 7 more articles in the media than Vita Coco. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Westrock Coffee and 5 mentions for Vita Coco. Vita Coco's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Westrock Coffee's score of -0.12 indicating that Vita Coco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vita Coco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Westrock Coffee. Westrock Coffee is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vita Coco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.5% of Vita Coco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.1% of Westrock Coffee shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.2% of Vita Coco shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 42.1% of Westrock Coffee shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Vita Coco has a net margin of 10.93% compared to Westrock Coffee's net margin of -6.33%. Vita Coco's return on equity of 26.27% beat Westrock Coffee's return on equity.
Vita Coco received 20 more outperform votes than Westrock Coffee when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Westrock Coffee an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Vita Coco an outperform vote.
Summary
Vita Coco beats Westrock Coffee on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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