HAIN vs. BGS, FLO, OTLY, BYND, VITL, NOMD, SMPL, UNFI, TLRY, and FDP
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), Flowers Foods (FLO), Oatly Group (OTLY), Beyond Meat (BYND), Vital Farms (VITL), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), United Natural Foods (UNFI), Tilray (TLRY), and Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
The Hain Celestial Group vs.
B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) and The Hain Celestial Group (NASDAQ:HAIN) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
B&G Foods presently has a consensus price target of $15.70, indicating a potential upside of 5.30%. The Hain Celestial Group has a consensus price target of $24.90, indicating a potential upside of 48.66%. Given The Hain Celestial Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe The Hain Celestial Group is more favorable than B&G Foods.
The Hain Celestial Group received 453 more outperform votes than B&G Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.81% of users gave The Hain Celestial Group an outperform vote while only 56.46% of users gave B&G Foods an outperform vote.
The Hain Celestial Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than B&G Foods. 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.
In the previous week, B&G Foods had 6 more articles in the media than The Hain Celestial Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for B&G Foods and 3 mentions for The Hain Celestial Group. The Hain Celestial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat B&G Foods' score of -0.20 indicating that The Hain Celestial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
63.7% of B&G Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of The Hain Celestial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of B&G Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of The Hain Celestial Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
The Hain Celestial Group has a net margin of 2.45% compared to B&G Foods' net margin of -0.53%. B&G Foods' return on equity of 8.97% beat The Hain Celestial Group's return on equity.
B&G Foods has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Hain Celestial Group has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
The Hain Celestial Group beats B&G Foods on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding HAIN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
The Hain Celestial Group Competitors List
