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Burcon NutraScience (BRCN) Competitors

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BRCN vs. YSG, JBSS, STKL, MATW, SCHL, CSV, CRESY, SENEA, DNUT, and WEST

Should you be buying Burcon NutraScience stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Burcon NutraScience include Yatsen (YSG), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), SunOpta (STKL), Matthews International (MATW), Scholastic (SCHL), Carriage Services (CSV), Cresud S.A.C.I.F. y A. (CRESY), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), and Westrock Coffee (WEST). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.

Burcon NutraScience vs. Its Competitors

Yatsen (NYSE:YSG) and Burcon NutraScience (NASDAQ:BRCN) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

In the previous week, Yatsen had 5 more articles in the media than Burcon NutraScience. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Yatsen and 0 mentions for Burcon NutraScience. Yatsen's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Burcon NutraScience'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Yatsen Neutral
Burcon NutraScience Neutral

5.8% of Burcon NutraScience shares are held by institutional investors. 29.0% of Yatsen shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Burcon NutraScience has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yatsen. Burcon NutraScience is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yatsen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Yatsen$464.90M1.72-$97.02M-$0.84-10.31
Burcon NutraScience$140K1,483.37-$8.18M-$0.08-23.88

Yatsen has a beta of -2.11, suggesting that its stock price is 311% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Burcon NutraScience has a beta of 1.95, suggesting that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Yatsen has a net margin of -17.03% compared to Burcon NutraScience's net margin of -4,546.88%. Yatsen's return on equity of -17.36% beat Burcon NutraScience's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Yatsen-17.03% -17.36% -13.86%
Burcon NutraScience -4,546.88%-37.49%-36.29%

Summary

Yatsen beats Burcon NutraScience on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BRCN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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BRCN vs. The Competition

MetricBurcon NutraScienceDairy Products IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$207.67M$810.63M$15.75B$9.51B
Dividend YieldN/A2.00%3.20%4.08%
P/E Ratio-23.8825.0018.5223.80
Price / Sales1,483.375,178.7545.8566.65
Price / CashN/A15.3614.5057.96
Price / Book9.107.585.885.55
Net Income-$8.18M$97.43M$690.35M$259.03M

Burcon NutraScience Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BRCN
Burcon NutraScience
N/A$1.91
flat
N/AN/A$207.67M$140K-23.8825Gap Up
YSG
Yatsen
0.4218 of 5 stars
$8.95
+5.3%
N/A+124.9%$783.86M$464.90M-10.651,350News Coverage
Analyst Downgrade
Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
JBSS
John B. Sanfilippo & Son
3.1707 of 5 stars
$66.74
+0.1%
N/A-39.1%$783.84M$1.07B14.081,800News Coverage
Positive News
STKL
SunOpta
3.9535 of 5 stars
$6.22
-2.8%
$9.50
+52.7%
+8.6%$752.27M$723.73M-47.851,248Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
MATW
Matthews International
4.3176 of 5 stars
$23.87
-0.7%
$40.00
+67.6%
-17.9%$745.14M$1.80B-9.3611,000Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
SCHL
Scholastic
3.8389 of 5 stars
$25.43
-3.0%
N/A-17.6%$736.81M$1.63B-635.756,660
CSV
Carriage Services
4.008 of 5 stars
$44.85
-1.2%
$50.50
+12.6%
+39.5%$712.46M$404.20M15.002,420Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
CRESY
Cresud S.A.C.I.F. y A.
1.4131 of 5 stars
$11.95
+3.1%
N/A+43.5%$711.71M$1.43B10.392,867
SENEA
Seneca Foods
1.0607 of 5 stars
$103.91
+1.8%
N/A+72.7%$703.85M$1.58B17.642,885Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
DNUT
Krispy Kreme
4.3256 of 5 stars
$3.78
-8.0%
$7.58
+100.4%
-67.0%$701.40M$1.67B-29.0821,000Upcoming Earnings
WEST
Westrock Coffee
2.5255 of 5 stars
$7.03
-1.8%
$10.40
+47.9%
-32.6%$677.63M$850.73M0.001,408Upcoming Earnings

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This page (NASDAQ:BRCN) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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