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FRPT vs. VITL, UTZ, BRBR, LW, NOMD, KLG, OTLY, MAMA, BYND, and AFRI

Should you be buying Freshpet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freshpet include Vital Farms (VITL), Utz Brands (UTZ), BellRing Brands (BRBR), Lamb Weston (LW), Nomad Foods (NOMD), WK Kellogg (KLG), Oatly Group (OTLY), Mama's Creations (MAMA), Beyond Meat (BYND), and Forafric Global (AFRI). These companies are all part of the "food products" industry.

Freshpet vs. Its Competitors

Vital Farms (NASDAQ:VITL) and Freshpet (NASDAQ:FRPT) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.

98.6% of Vital Farms shares are held by institutional investors. 21.3% of Vital Farms shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Freshpet shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Vital Farms has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freshpet has a beta of 1.79, indicating that its stock price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Vital Farms currently has a consensus target price of $44.67, suggesting a potential upside of 17.02%. Freshpet has a consensus target price of $119.14, suggesting a potential upside of 74.21%. Given Freshpet's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Freshpet is more favorable than Vital Farms.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Vital Farms
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.10
Freshpet
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

In the previous week, Freshpet had 3 more articles in the media than Vital Farms. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Freshpet and 9 mentions for Vital Farms. Vital Farms' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Freshpet's score of 1.00 indicating that Vital Farms is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Vital Farms
5 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Freshpet
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Vital Farms has a net margin of 8.26% compared to Freshpet's net margin of 1.54%. Vital Farms' return on equity of 19.53% beat Freshpet's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Vital Farms8.26% 19.53% 14.63%
Freshpet 1.54%3.16%2.11%

Vital Farms has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Freshpet. Vital Farms is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freshpet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Vital Farms$606.31M2.80$53.39M$1.1234.08
Freshpet$975.18M3.42$46.92M$0.31220.61

Summary

Vital Farms beats Freshpet on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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FRPT vs. The Competition

MetricFreshpetFOOD IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.34B$8.35B$16.22B$9.10B
Dividend YieldN/A3.47%3.11%4.02%
P/E Ratio220.6125.7019.7820.26
Price / Sales3.421.7345.99165.28
Price / Cash28.9212.6414.7057.67
Price / Book3.153.556.105.49
Net Income$46.92M$398.24M$680.31M$250.45M
7 Day Performance-4.66%4.35%2.16%4.79%
1 Month Performance-7.92%2.95%3.64%9.59%
1 Year Performance-46.35%-1.60%4.30%16.41%

Freshpet Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FRPT
Freshpet
4.134 of 5 stars
$68.39
-3.3%
$119.14
+74.2%
-46.3%$3.34B$975.18M220.611,296Positive News
Analyst Forecast
VITL
Vital Farms
4.2176 of 5 stars
$38.52
-0.8%
$44.63
+15.8%
-11.7%$1.72B$606.31M34.39290News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
UTZ
Utz Brands
4.5511 of 5 stars
$12.57
+1.0%
$17.69
+40.7%
-8.7%$1.78B$1.41B39.283,200News Coverage
BRBR
BellRing Brands
4.0314 of 5 stars
$57.90
-1.1%
$77.00
+33.0%
+5.1%$7.35B$2.00B26.93380News Coverage
LW
Lamb Weston
4.7219 of 5 stars
$51.94
-2.7%
$67.73
+30.4%
-35.0%$7.33B$6.47B20.3710,700Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
NOMD
Nomad Foods
4.5174 of 5 stars
$16.98
-0.4%
$24.00
+41.3%
+2.0%$2.60B$3.35B11.327,788News Coverage
KLG
WK Kellogg
1.7131 of 5 stars
$15.94
-0.4%
$16.86
+5.8%
+46.6%$1.37B$2.71B24.913,280Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
OTLY
Oatly Group
1.8693 of 5 stars
$11.87
+2.0%
$16.80
+41.5%
-35.2%$355.27M$823.67M-2.081,482Positive News
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MAMA
Mama's Creations
2.0321 of 5 stars
$8.30
+1.0%
$10.50
+26.5%
+19.1%$312.16M$123.33M75.46N/ANews Coverage
BYND
Beyond Meat
2.1477 of 5 stars
$3.49
+2.0%
$4.00
+14.6%
-49.3%$266.88M$326.45M-1.53880News Coverage
AFRI
Forafric Global
0.3672 of 5 stars
$7.80
+0.5%
N/A-27.5%$209.66M$274.22M0.001High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:FRPT) was last updated on 7/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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