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$26.06 +0.52 (+2.04%)
Closing price 05/12/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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CVGW vs. THS, JBSS, SENEA, LWAY, BGS, HAIN, FARM, MDLZ, HSY, and GIS

Should you be buying Calavo Growers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Calavo Growers include TreeHouse Foods (THS), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Lifeway Foods (LWAY), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Farmer Bros. (FARM), Mondelez International (MDLZ), Hershey (HSY), and General Mills (GIS). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.

Calavo Growers vs.

Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) and TreeHouse Foods (NYSE:THS) 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 media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and community ranking.

TreeHouse Foods received 173 more outperform votes than Calavo Growers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.42% of users gave TreeHouse Foods an outperform vote while only 60.89% of users gave Calavo Growers an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Calavo GrowersOutperform Votes
316
60.89%
Underperform Votes
203
39.11%
TreeHouse FoodsOutperform Votes
489
63.42%
Underperform Votes
282
36.58%

81.3% of Calavo Growers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 7.2% of Calavo Growers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.1% of TreeHouse Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Calavo Growers presently has a consensus price target of $35.00, suggesting a potential upside of 34.31%. TreeHouse Foods has a consensus price target of $27.83, suggesting a potential upside of 20.76%. Given Calavo Growers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Calavo Growers is more favorable than TreeHouse Foods.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Calavo Growers
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
TreeHouse Foods
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

TreeHouse Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TreeHouse Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Calavo Growers$688.32M0.68-$1.08M$0.5448.26
TreeHouse Foods$3.33B0.35$26.90M$0.13177.30

TreeHouse Foods has a net margin of 0.80% compared to Calavo Growers' net margin of -0.16%. Calavo Growers' return on equity of 9.66% beat TreeHouse Foods' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Calavo Growers-0.16% 9.66% 5.30%
TreeHouse Foods 0.80%6.42%2.54%

Calavo Growers has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TreeHouse Foods has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, TreeHouse Foods had 23 more articles in the media than Calavo Growers. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for TreeHouse Foods and 13 mentions for Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers' average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat TreeHouse Foods' score of 0.35 indicating that Calavo Growers is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Calavo Growers
10 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
TreeHouse Foods
7 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Calavo Growers and TreeHouse Foods tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CVGW vs. The Competition

MetricCalavo GrowersAgricultural services IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$464.83M$473.23M$17.29B$8.27B
Dividend Yield3.01%3.01%3.05%4.20%
P/E Ratio-434.3355.8916.4319.66
Price / Sales0.681.584.45117.33
Price / Cash14.5010.0116.3934.62
Price / Book2.301.306.324.46
Net Income-$1.08M$10.95M$734.35M$248.29M
7 Day Performance-2.19%8.60%1.99%6.04%
1 Month Performance8.72%11.90%6.48%14.07%
1 Year Performance-8.17%67.34%-3.95%6.83%

Calavo Growers Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CVGW
Calavo Growers
4.1867 of 5 stars
$26.06
+2.0%
$35.00
+34.3%
-9.1%$464.83M$688.32M-434.333,270Positive News
Gap Up
THS
TreeHouse Foods
4.6393 of 5 stars
$23.05
+2.0%
$27.83
+20.8%
-33.5%$1.16B$3.33B42.687,500Earnings Report
Insider Trade
Gap Up
JBSS
John B. Sanfilippo & Son
3.0399 of 5 stars
$62.81
+2.7%
N/A-38.5%$738.58M$1.11B15.061,300
SENEA
Seneca Foods
1.4665 of 5 stars
$87.53
-1.1%
N/A+46.3%$602.21M$1.54B15.973,000Positive News
LWAY
Lifeway Foods
0.9304 of 5 stars
$24.41
+1.1%
$26.50
+8.6%
-9.3%$371.11M$186.82M28.38280Positive News
BGS
B&G Foods
3.2763 of 5 stars
$4.49
+0.3%
$7.30
+62.8%
-44.0%$357.89M$1.88B-13.193,080Earnings Report
High Trading Volume
HAIN
The Hain Celestial Group
4.7499 of 5 stars
$1.77
+12.0%
$4.39
+148.0%
-74.8%$159.75M$1.66B-0.913,080Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
FARM
Farmer Bros.
4.2316 of 5 stars
$1.67
+2.5%
$5.25
+214.4%
-48.0%$35.66M$344.84M-3.481,070Earnings Report
MDLZ
Mondelez International
4.4476 of 5 stars
$65.83
-0.8%
$70.55
+7.2%
-7.5%$85.24B$36.46B19.2591,000Positive News
HSY
Hershey
4.2946 of 5 stars
$167.91
-1.7%
$161.40
-3.9%
-18.0%$33.99B$10.75B15.4019,900Positive News
GIS
General Mills
4.6782 of 5 stars
$54.86
+0.7%
$65.00
+18.5%
-22.4%$30.24B$19.64B11.9332,500Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:CVGW) was last updated on 5/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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