HAIN vs. BGS, BYND, OTLY, VITL, CRESY, UNFI, WALD, NUS, AFRI, and LND
Should you be buying The Hain Celestial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Hain Celestial Group include B&G Foods (BGS), Beyond Meat (BYND), Oatly Group (OTLY), Vital Farms (VITL), Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria (CRESY), United Natural Foods (UNFI), Waldencast (WALD), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Forafric Global (AFRI), and BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) and The Hain Celestial Group (NASDAQ:HAIN) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
B&G Foods has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Hain Celestial Group has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
B&G Foods has higher revenue and earnings than The Hain Celestial Group. B&G Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Hain Celestial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
66.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of The Hain Celestial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of The Hain Celestial Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
B&G Foods has a net margin of -3.21% compared to B&G Foods' net margin of -8.88%. The Hain Celestial Group's return on equity of 8.68% beat B&G Foods' return on equity.
B&G Foods currently has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential downside of 14.68%. The Hain Celestial Group has a consensus target price of $12.70, suggesting a potential upside of 93.01%. Given B&G Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe The Hain Celestial Group is more favorable than B&G Foods.
In the previous week, The Hain Celestial Group had 9 more articles in the media than B&G Foods. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for The Hain Celestial Group and 2 mentions for B&G Foods. The Hain Celestial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat B&G Foods' score of 0.03 indicating that B&G Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
The Hain Celestial Group received 456 more outperform votes than B&G Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.90% of users gave The Hain Celestial Group an outperform vote while only 54.97% of users gave B&G Foods an outperform vote.
Summary
B&G Foods and The Hain Celestial Group tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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