AGRO vs. FDP, LND, LMNR, JBSS, VITL, UVV, SCHL, CHEF, COCO, and NAPA
Should you be buying Adecoagro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Adecoagro include Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND), Limoneira (LMNR), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Vital Farms (VITL), Universal (UVV), Scholastic (SCHL), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), Vita Coco (COCO), and Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Fresh Del Monte Produce (NYSE:FDP) and Adecoagro (NYSE:AGRO) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and media sentiment.
Fresh Del Monte Produce received 15 more outperform votes than Adecoagro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.56% of users gave Fresh Del Monte Produce an outperform vote while only 59.90% of users gave Adecoagro an outperform vote.
Fresh Del Monte Produce pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Adecoagro pays an annual dividend of $0.33 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Fresh Del Monte Produce pays out -400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Adecoagro pays out 15.6% 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. Fresh Del Monte Produce has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Adecoagro has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Fresh Del Monte Produce is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Adecoagro has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fresh Del Monte Produce. Fresh Del Monte Produce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adecoagro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fresh Del Monte Produce has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adecoagro has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Adecoagro has a consensus price target of $12.17, suggesting a potential upside of 10.11%. Given Fresh Del Monte Produce's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Adecoagro is more favorable than Fresh Del Monte Produce.
Adecoagro has a net margin of 17.42% compared to Adecoagro's net margin of -0.26%. Fresh Del Monte Produce's return on equity of 10.86% beat Adecoagro's return on equity.
64.8% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.3% of Adecoagro shares are held by institutional investors. 29.7% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Adecoagro shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Adecoagro had 3 more articles in the media than Fresh Del Monte Produce. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Adecoagro and 3 mentions for Fresh Del Monte Produce. Fresh Del Monte Produce's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Adecoagro's score of 0.55 indicating that Adecoagro is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Adecoagro beats Fresh Del Monte Produce on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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