FREE vs. ALCO, MAMA, TDUP, VFF, PRPL, CDZI, HFFG, VGII, MED, and LWAY
Should you be buying Whole Earth Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Whole Earth Brands include Alico (ALCO), Mama's Creations (MAMA), ThredUp (TDUP), Village Farms International (VFF), Purple Innovation (PRPL), Cadiz (CDZI), HF Foods Group (HFFG), Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II (VGII), Medifast (MED), and Lifeway Foods (LWAY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Whole Earth Brands (NASDAQ:FREE) and Alico (NASDAQ:ALCO) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
82.1% of Whole Earth Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.3% of Alico shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Whole Earth Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Alico shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alico has a net margin of 110.84% compared to Whole Earth Brands' net margin of -6.92%. Alico's return on equity of -14.09% beat Whole Earth Brands' return on equity.
Alico has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Whole Earth Brands. Whole Earth Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alico, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alico received 169 more outperform votes than Whole Earth Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.63% of users gave Alico an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Whole Earth Brands an outperform vote.
Whole Earth Brands has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alico has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alico had 2 more articles in the media than Whole Earth Brands. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Alico and 1 mentions for Whole Earth Brands. Alico's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Whole Earth Brands' score of 0.36 indicating that Alico is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alico beats Whole Earth Brands on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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