SANW vs. LOCL, SEED, DALN, SDOT, EDUC, BRFH, RGF, WVVI, NCRA, and PETZ
Should you be buying S&W Seed stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&W Seed include Local Bounti (LOCL), Origin Agritech (SEED), DallasNews (DALN), Sadot Group (SDOT), Educational Development (EDUC), Barfresh Food Group (BRFH), Real Good Food (RGF), Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVVI), Nocera (NCRA), and TDH (PETZ). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Local Bounti (NYSE:LOCL) and S&W Seed (NASDAQ:SANW) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
28.0% of Local Bounti shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of S&W Seed shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.0% of Local Bounti shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of S&W Seed shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
S&W Seed received 342 more outperform votes than Local Bounti when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.92% of users gave S&W Seed an outperform vote while only 31.58% of users gave Local Bounti an outperform vote.
S&W Seed has higher revenue and earnings than Local Bounti. Local Bounti is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S&W Seed, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Local Bounti has a beta of 2.65, suggesting that its share price is 165% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&W Seed has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
S&W Seed has a net margin of 18.36% compared to S&W Seed's net margin of -311.00%. Local Bounti's return on equity of -28.69% beat S&W Seed's return on equity.
In the previous week, Local Bounti had 7 more articles in the media than S&W Seed. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Local Bounti and 2 mentions for S&W Seed. Local Bounti's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat S&W Seed's score of 0.43 indicating that S&W Seed is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Local Bounti currently has a consensus target price of $33.13, indicating a potential upside of 1,034.42%. S&W Seed has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 552.17%. Given S&W Seed's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Local Bounti is more favorable than S&W Seed.
Summary
S&W Seed beats Local Bounti on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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