LMNR vs. ALCO, SANW, FDP, LND, VFF, AGRO, MED, CBUS, CSV, and BYND
Should you be buying Limoneira stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Limoneira include Alico (ALCO), S&W Seed (SANW), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND), Village Farms International (VFF), Adecoagro (AGRO), Medifast (MED), Cibus (CBUS), Carriage Services (CSV), and Beyond Meat (BYND). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Limoneira (NASDAQ:LMNR) 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 community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Limoneira currently has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.59%. Given Limoneira's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Limoneira is more favorable than Alico.
Limoneira has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% 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, Limoneira and Limoneira both had 4 articles in the media. Limoneira's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Alico's score of 0.47 indicating that Limoneira is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Limoneira pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Alico pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Limoneira pays out -51.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alico pays out 3.2% 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. Limoneira is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Alico has a net margin of 110.84% compared to Limoneira's net margin of -5.40%. Limoneira's return on equity of -1.16% beat Alico's return on equity.
64.4% of Limoneira shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.3% of Alico shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of Limoneira shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Alico shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Limoneira received 103 more outperform votes than Alico when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.63% of users gave Alico an outperform vote while only 62.42% of users gave Limoneira an outperform vote.
Limoneira has higher revenue and earnings than Alico. Limoneira is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alico, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Limoneira beats Alico on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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