BRCN vs. LWAY, HAIN, MED, VFF, LESL, BRLS, PRPL, WYHG, BRID, and PLIN
Should you be buying Burcon NutraScience stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Burcon NutraScience include Lifeway Foods (LWAY), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Medifast (MED), Village Farms International (VFF), Leslie's (LESL), Borealis Foods (BRLS), Purple Innovation (PRPL), Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Limited (Uplisting) (WYHG), Bridgford Foods (BRID), and China Xiangtai Food (PLIN). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Burcon NutraScience vs. Its Competitors
Burcon NutraScience (NASDAQ:BRCN) and Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ:LWAY) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk and profitability.
Burcon NutraScience has a beta of 1.95, meaning that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lifeway Foods has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lifeway Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Burcon NutraScience. Burcon NutraScience is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lifeway Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lifeway Foods has a net margin of 7.23% compared to Burcon NutraScience's net margin of -4,546.88%. Lifeway Foods' return on equity of 19.97% beat Burcon NutraScience's return on equity.
Lifeway Foods has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.32%. Given Lifeway Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lifeway Foods is more favorable than Burcon NutraScience.
Lifeway Foods received 300 more outperform votes than Burcon NutraScience when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Burcon NutraScience an outperform vote while only 65.87% of users gave Lifeway Foods an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Lifeway Foods had 2 more articles in the media than Burcon NutraScience. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Lifeway Foods and 0 mentions for Burcon NutraScience. Lifeway Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Burcon NutraScience's score of 0.00 indicating that Lifeway Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
5.8% of Burcon NutraScience shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.4% of Lifeway Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.9% of Lifeway Foods shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Lifeway Foods beats Burcon NutraScience on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BRCN) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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