Above Food Ingredients (ABVE) Competitors

Above Food Ingredients (NASDAQ:ABVE) and Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Do analysts recommend ABVE or BYND?

Beyond Meat has a consensus price target of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.69%. Given Beyond Meat's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Beyond Meat is more favorable than Above Food Ingredients.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Above Food Ingredients	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Beyond Meat	2 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.33

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, ABVE or BYND?

Above Food Ingredients has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Beyond Meat.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Above Food Ingredients	$273.06M	0.19	-$39.49M	N/A	N/A
Beyond Meat	$326.45M	0.56	-$160.28M	-$2.18	-1.10

Is ABVE or BYND more profitable?

Above Food Ingredients has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Beyond Meat's net margin of -52.27%.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Above Food Ingredients	N/A	N/A	N/A
Beyond Meat	-52.27%	N/A	-22.97%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in ABVE or BYND?

28.8% of Above Food Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.5% of Beyond Meat shares are held by institutional investors. 64.5% of Above Food Ingredients shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.5% of Beyond Meat shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media refer more to ABVE or BYND?

In the previous week, Beyond Meat had 2 more articles in the media than Above Food Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Beyond Meat and 1 mentions for Above Food Ingredients. Above Food Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Beyond Meat's score of 0.48 indicating that Above Food Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Above Food Ingredients	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Beyond Meat	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has more volatility and risk, ABVE or BYND?

Above Food Ingredients has a beta of -0.23, indicating that its share price is 123% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beyond Meat has a beta of 2.22, indicating that its share price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Beyond Meat beats Above Food Ingredients on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.