Edible Garden (EDBL) Competitors

Edible Garden (NASDAQ:EDBL) and S&W Seed (NASDAQ:SANW) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking and profitability.

Do analysts prefer EDBL or SANW?

S&W Seed has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 400.00%. Given S&W Seed's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe S&W Seed is more favorable than Edible Garden.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Edible Garden	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
S&W Seed	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer EDBL or SANW?

S&W Seed received 349 more outperform votes than Edible Garden when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.73% of users gave S&W Seed an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Edible Garden an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Edible Garden	Outperform Votes 1 33.33%	Underperform Votes 2 66.67%
S&W Seed	Outperform Votes 350 56.73%	Underperform Votes 267 43.27%

Which has more risk & volatility, EDBL or SANW?

Edible Garden has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&W Seed has a beta of 2.11, meaning that its stock price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, EDBL or SANW?

Edible Garden has higher earnings, but lower revenue than S&W Seed. S&W Seed is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edible Garden, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Edible Garden	$13.44M	0.72	-$10.19M	-$59.31	-0.10
S&W Seed	$54.99M	0.20	-$30.03M	-$14.24	-0.35

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in EDBL or SANW?

13.0% of Edible Garden shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of S&W Seed shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Edible Garden shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of S&W Seed shares are owned 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.

Does the media refer more to EDBL or SANW?

In the previous week, S&W Seed had 2 more articles in the media than Edible Garden. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for S&W Seed and 11 mentions for Edible Garden. Edible Garden's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat S&W Seed's score of 0.31 indicating that Edible Garden is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Edible Garden	2 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
S&W Seed	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Is EDBL or SANW more profitable?

S&W Seed has a net margin of -76.30% compared to Edible Garden's net margin of -78.61%. S&W Seed's return on equity of -51.47% beat Edible Garden's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Edible Garden	-78.61%	-52,263.51%	-135.27%
S&W Seed	-76.30%	-51.47%	-18.21%

Summary

S&W Seed beats Edible Garden on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.