BGS vs. VITL, OTLY, BYND, NOMD, SMPL, LESL, MATW, OLPX, WEST, and AVO
Should you be buying B&G Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B&G Foods include Vital Farms (VITL), Oatly Group (OTLY), Beyond Meat (BYND), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Leslie's (LESL), Matthews International (MATW), Olaplex (OLPX), Westrock Coffee (WEST), and Mission Produce (AVO). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Vital Farms (NASDAQ:VITL) and B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
Vital Farms has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, B&G Foods has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
B&G Foods received 334 more outperform votes than Vital Farms when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.97% of users gave B&G Foods an outperform vote while only 39.22% of users gave Vital Farms an outperform vote.
98.6% of Vital Farms shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.2% of Vital Farms shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of B&G Foods 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 currently has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential downside of 14.81%. B&G Foods has a consensus price target of $9.50, suggesting a potential downside of 14.10%. Given Vital Farms' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe B&G Foods is more favorable than Vital Farms.
Vital Farms has a net margin of 5.42% compared to Vital Farms' net margin of -3.21%. B&G Foods' return on equity of 14.22% beat Vital Farms' return on equity.
Vital Farms has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
In the previous week, Vital Farms had 16 more articles in the media than B&G Foods. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Vital Farms and 1 mentions for B&G Foods. Vital Farms' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat B&G Foods' score of 0.44 indicating that B&G Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Vital Farms beats B&G Foods on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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