EAST vs. RIBT, GNLN, BSFC, AGRI, SVFD, EDBL, NUZE, IVP, NITO, and YTEN
Should you be buying Eastside Distilling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eastside Distilling include RiceBran Technologies (RIBT), Greenlane (GNLN), Blue Star Foods (BSFC), AgriFORCE Growing Systems (AGRI), Save Foods (SVFD), Edible Garden (EDBL), NuZee (NUZE), Inspire Veterinary Partners (IVP), N2OFF (NITO), and Yield10 Bioscience (YTEN). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Eastside Distilling (NASDAQ:EAST) and RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ:RIBT) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Eastside Distilling has a beta of 1.72, meaning that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RiceBran Technologies has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Eastside Distilling received 130 more outperform votes than RiceBran Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.54% of users gave Eastside Distilling an outperform vote while only 47.64% of users gave RiceBran Technologies an outperform vote.
Eastside Distilling presently has a consensus price target of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 243.34%. Given Eastside Distilling's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Eastside Distilling is more favorable than RiceBran Technologies.
Eastside Distilling has higher earnings, but lower revenue than RiceBran Technologies.
Eastside Distilling has a net margin of -69.48% compared to RiceBran Technologies' net margin of -112.22%. Eastside Distilling's return on equity of 0.00% beat RiceBran Technologies' return on equity.
In the previous week, Eastside Distilling had 6 more articles in the media than RiceBran Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Eastside Distilling and 3 mentions for RiceBran Technologies. RiceBran Technologies' average media sentiment score of -0.21 beat Eastside Distilling's score of -0.34 indicating that RiceBran Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
0.6% of Eastside Distilling shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.5% of RiceBran Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.1% of Eastside Distilling shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of RiceBran Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Eastside Distilling beats RiceBran Technologies on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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