FREE vs. ALCO, MAMA, PLIN, PRPL, HFFG, CDZI, BRID, VGII, LMNR, and CBUS
Should you be buying Whole Earth Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Whole Earth Brands include Alico (ALCO), Mama's Creations (MAMA), China Xiangtai Food (PLIN), Purple Innovation (PRPL), HF Foods Group (HFFG), Cadiz (CDZI), Bridgford Foods (BRID), Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II (VGII), Limoneira (LMNR), and Cibus (CBUS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Whole Earth Brands (NASDAQ:FREE) and Alico (NASDAQ:ALCO) 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 community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
82.1% of Whole Earth Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.3% of Alico shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Whole Earth Brands shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Alico shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Whole Earth Brands had 11 more articles in the media than Alico. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Whole Earth Brands and 1 mentions for Alico. Whole Earth Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Alico's score of 0.00 indicating that Whole Earth Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alico received 169 more outperform votes than Whole Earth Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.63% of users gave Alico an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Whole Earth Brands an outperform vote.
Whole Earth Brands has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alico has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alico has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Whole Earth Brands. Whole Earth Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alico, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alico has a net margin of 110.84% compared to Whole Earth Brands' net margin of -6.92%. Alico's return on equity of -14.09% beat Whole Earth Brands' return on equity.
Summary
Alico beats Whole Earth Brands on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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