UTZ vs. GO, TBBB, NOMD, HELE, JJSF, WDFC, DNUT, WLY, TR, and WLYB
Should you be buying Utz Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Utz Brands include Grocery Outlet (GO), BBB Foods (TBBB), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Helen of Troy (HELE), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), WD-40 (WDFC), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), and John Wiley & Sons (WLYB). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Grocery Outlet (NASDAQ:GO) and Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Utz Brands received 27 more outperform votes than Grocery Outlet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave Utz Brands an outperform vote while only 32.00% of users gave Grocery Outlet an outperform vote.
Grocery Outlet has a beta of 0.13, suggesting that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utz Brands has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Grocery Outlet had 19 more articles in the media than Utz Brands. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Grocery Outlet and 17 mentions for Utz Brands. Grocery Outlet's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Utz Brands' score of 0.01 indicating that Utz Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
99.9% of Grocery Outlet shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 4.5% of Grocery Outlet shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Grocery Outlet has higher revenue and earnings than Utz Brands. Utz Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grocery Outlet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Grocery Outlet has a net margin of 1.60% compared to Grocery Outlet's net margin of -1.38%. Grocery Outlet's return on equity of 6.16% beat Utz Brands' return on equity.
Grocery Outlet currently has a consensus price target of $28.90, suggesting a potential upside of 38.34%. Utz Brands has a consensus price target of $20.42, suggesting a potential upside of 11.44%. Given Utz Brands' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Grocery Outlet is more favorable than Utz Brands.
Summary
Utz Brands beats Grocery Outlet on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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