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Burcon NutraScience (BRCN) Competitors

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BRCN vs. GO, SV, EPC, THS, YSG, AGRO, TDUP, AVO, MATW, and JBSS

Should you be buying Burcon NutraScience stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Burcon NutraScience include Grocery Outlet (GO), Spring Valley Acquisition (SV), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Yatsen (YSG), Adecoagro (AGRO), ThredUp (TDUP), Mission Produce (AVO), Matthews International (MATW), and John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.

Burcon NutraScience vs. Its Competitors

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

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Burcon NutraScience$140K1,483.37-$8.18M-$0.08-23.88
Grocery Outlet$4.37B0.30$39.47M$0.1682.94

Grocery Outlet has a net margin of 0.39% compared to Burcon NutraScience's net margin of -4,546.88%. Grocery Outlet's return on equity of 6.21% beat Burcon NutraScience's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Burcon NutraScience-4,546.88% -37.49% -36.29%
Grocery Outlet 0.39%6.21%2.37%

5.8% of Burcon NutraScience shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Grocery Outlet shares are held by institutional investors. 4.5% of Grocery Outlet 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.

In the previous week, Grocery Outlet had 5 more articles in the media than Burcon NutraScience. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Grocery Outlet and 0 mentions for Burcon NutraScience. Grocery Outlet's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Burcon NutraScience's score of 0.00 indicating that Grocery Outlet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Burcon NutraScience Neutral
Grocery Outlet Neutral

Burcon NutraScience has a beta of 1.95, meaning that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grocery Outlet has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Grocery Outlet has a consensus price target of $15.62, indicating a potential upside of 17.67%. Given Grocery Outlet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Grocery Outlet is more favorable than Burcon NutraScience.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Burcon NutraScience
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Grocery Outlet
2 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.14

Summary

Grocery Outlet beats Burcon NutraScience on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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BRCN vs. The Competition

MetricBurcon NutraScienceDairy Products IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$207.67M$810.63M$16.26B$9.11B
Dividend YieldN/A2.00%3.10%4.02%
P/E Ratio-23.8825.0019.7820.25
Price / Sales1,483.375,178.7546.1599.61
Price / CashN/A15.3614.8358.16
Price / Book9.107.586.095.49
Net Income-$8.18M$97.43M$680.31M$250.27M

Burcon NutraScience Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BRCN
Burcon NutraScience
N/A$1.91
+1.3%
N/AN/A$207.67M$140K-23.8825Gap Up
GO
Grocery Outlet
1.7339 of 5 stars
$12.63
-0.3%
$15.62
+23.6%
-37.3%$1.24B$4.37B78.942,307News Coverage
High Trading Volume
SV
Spring Valley Acquisition
N/A$38.20
-0.1%
N/A+175.8%$1.10BN/A0.002High Trading Volume
EPC
Edgewell Personal Care
3.725 of 5 stars
$23.26
-1.4%
$33.00
+41.9%
-32.4%$1.09B$2.25B13.606,700
THS
TreeHouse Foods
4.2216 of 5 stars
$19.55
-1.1%
$27.83
+42.4%
-44.3%$987.12M$3.35B150.377,400
YSG
Yatsen
1.2502 of 5 stars
$10.33
+0.0%
N/A+167.2%$952.17M$464.90M-12.291,350High Trading Volume
AGRO
Adecoagro
1.8243 of 5 stars
$9.08
-1.0%
$10.55
+16.3%
-4.9%$907.41M$1.52B14.6410,320
TDUP
ThredUp
1.0734 of 5 stars
$7.45
-5.0%
$7.25
-2.7%
+300.0%$880.96M$260.03M-12.841,630High Trading Volume
AVO
Mission Produce
4.5383 of 5 stars
$11.85
flat
$15.50
+30.8%
+22.4%$836.85M$1.23B23.703,100News Coverage
High Trading Volume
MATW
Matthews International
4.0508 of 5 stars
$24.36
+2.5%
$40.00
+64.2%
+0.4%$755.40M$1.80B-9.5511,000News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
JBSS
John B. Sanfilippo & Son
3.6228 of 5 stars
$63.42
+0.7%
N/A-29.1%$745.82M$1.07B13.381,800Positive News
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:BRCN) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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