VITL vs. BGS, OTLY, HAIN, BYND, NOMD, SMPL, AGRO, JBSS, FDP, and UVV
Should you be buying Vital Farms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vital Farms include B&G Foods (BGS), Oatly Group (OTLY), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Beyond Meat (BYND), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Adecoagro (AGRO), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), and Universal (UVV). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) and Vital Farms (NASDAQ:VITL) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and valuation.
B&G Foods received 333 more outperform votes than Vital Farms when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.88% of users gave B&G Foods an outperform vote while only 38.89% of users gave Vital Farms an outperform vote.
Vital Farms has a net margin of 7.48% compared to Vital Farms' net margin of -5.42%. B&G Foods' return on equity of 19.58% beat Vital Farms' return on equity.
B&G Foods has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vital Farms has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
B&G Foods currently has a consensus price target of $9.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.24%. Vital Farms has a consensus price target of $34.40, indicating a potential downside of 7.05%. Given Vital Farms' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe B&G Foods is more favorable than Vital Farms.
In the previous week, Vital Farms had 14 more articles in the media than B&G Foods. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Vital Farms and 29 mentions for B&G Foods. B&G Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Vital Farms' score of -0.08 indicating that Vital Farms is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
66.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.6% of Vital Farms shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.2% of Vital Farms shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vital Farms has lower revenue, but higher earnings than B&G Foods. B&G Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vital Farms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Vital Farms beats B&G Foods on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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