SEED vs. LOCL, SANW, VFF, BHIL, BRFH, DTCK, YHGJ, OXUS, MLEC, and WVVI
Should you be buying Origin Agritech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Origin Agritech include Local Bounti (LOCL), S&W Seed (SANW), Village Farms International (VFF), Benson Hill (BHIL), Barfresh Food Group (BRFH), Davis Commodities (DTCK), Yunhong Green CTI (YHGJ), Oxus Acquisition (OXUS), Moolec Science (MLEC), and Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVVI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Local Bounti (NYSE:LOCL) and Origin Agritech (NASDAQ:SEED) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
Origin Agritech has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Origin Agritech's net margin of -425.89%. Local Bounti's return on equity of 0.00% beat Origin Agritech's return on equity.
Origin Agritech received 209 more outperform votes than Local Bounti when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.15% of users gave Origin Agritech an outperform vote while only 31.58% of users gave Local Bounti an outperform vote.
Local Bounti presently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 206.12%. Given Origin Agritech's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Local Bounti is more favorable than Origin Agritech.
Origin Agritech has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Local Bounti.
28.0% of Local Bounti shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.7% of Origin Agritech shares are held by institutional investors. 38.1% of Local Bounti shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Local Bounti has a beta of 2.57, meaning that its share price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Origin Agritech has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Origin Agritech had 3 more articles in the media than Local Bounti. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Origin Agritech and 1 mentions for Local Bounti. Local Bounti's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Origin Agritech's score of 0.41 indicating that Origin Agritech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Origin Agritech beats Local Bounti on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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