AVO vs. CVGW, MATW, LESL, BGS, BIOX, WEST, STKL, OLPX, LVRO, and EWCZ
Should you be buying Mission Produce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mission Produce include Calavo Growers (CVGW), Matthews International (MATW), Leslie's (LESL), B&G Foods (BGS), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Westrock Coffee (WEST), SunOpta (STKL), Olaplex (OLPX), Lavoro (LVRO), and European Wax Center (EWCZ). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Mission Produce (NASDAQ:AVO) and Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
63.6% of Mission Produce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of Calavo Growers shares are held by institutional investors. 41.6% of Mission Produce shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Calavo Growers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Mission Produce had 6 more articles in the media than Calavo Growers. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Mission Produce and 6 mentions for Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers' average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Mission Produce's score of 0.13 indicating that Calavo Growers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mission Produce has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Calavo Growers has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Calavo Growers received 297 more outperform votes than Mission Produce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.30% of users gave Calavo Growers an outperform vote while only 39.47% of users gave Mission Produce an outperform vote.
Mission Produce has a net margin of 0.60% compared to Calavo Growers' net margin of -1.32%. Mission Produce's return on equity of 3.98% beat Calavo Growers' return on equity.
Mission Produce has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mission Produce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mission Produce presently has a consensus target price of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.95%. Calavo Growers has a consensus target price of $38.50, indicating a potential upside of 39.24%. Given Calavo Growers' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Calavo Growers is more favorable than Mission Produce.
Summary
Mission Produce beats Calavo Growers on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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