CVGW vs. AVO, BYND, DJCO, TPB, SENEA, YSG, CRESY, HAIN, CSV, and OTLY
Should you be buying Calavo Growers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Calavo Growers include Mission Produce (AVO), Beyond Meat (BYND), Daily Journal (DJCO), Turning Point Brands (TPB), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Yatsen (YSG), Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria (CRESY), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Carriage Services (CSV), and Oatly Group (OTLY). 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 superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Mission Produce has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Calavo Growers has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 currently has a consensus target price of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.97%. Calavo Growers has a consensus target price of $38.50, suggesting a potential upside of 43.50%. Given Mission Produce's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Calavo Growers is more favorable than Mission Produce.
In the previous week, Mission Produce had 3 more articles in the media than Calavo Growers. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Mission Produce and 5 mentions for Calavo Growers. Mission Produce's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Calavo Growers' score of 0.22 indicating that Calavo Growers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Mission Produce has a net margin of 0.60% compared to Mission Produce's net margin of -1.32%. Calavo Growers' return on equity of 3.98% beat Mission Produce's return on equity.
Summary
Mission Produce beats Calavo Growers on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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