SOVO vs. UTZ, THS, BGS, ASAI, SENEA, NATH, RGF, TTCF, BRLSW, and SNAXW
Should you be buying Sovos Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sovos Brands include Utz Brands (UTZ), TreeHouse Foods (THS), B&G Foods (BGS), Sendas Distribuidora (ASAI), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Real Good Food (RGF), Tattooed Chef (TTCF), Borealis Foods (BRLSW), and Stryve Foods (SNAXW).
Sovos Brands (NASDAQ:SOVO) and Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Sovos Brands presently has a consensus price target of $23.06, indicating a potential upside of 0.36%. Utz Brands has a consensus price target of $18.42, indicating a potential upside of 0.62%. Given Utz Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Utz Brands is more favorable than Sovos Brands.
In the previous week, Utz Brands had 2 more articles in the media than Sovos Brands. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Utz Brands and 0 mentions for Sovos Brands. Utz Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Sovos Brands' score of 0.00 indicating that Utz Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
96.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of Sovos Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sovos Brands has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Utz Brands. Utz Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sovos Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sovos Brands has a beta of 0.02, indicating that its stock price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utz Brands has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Utz Brands received 23 more outperform votes than Sovos Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.96% of users gave Utz Brands an outperform vote while only 46.81% of users gave Sovos Brands an outperform vote.
Sovos Brands has a net margin of 2.96% compared to Utz Brands' net margin of -1.73%. Sovos Brands' return on equity of 16.33% beat Utz Brands' return on equity.
Summary
Utz Brands beats Sovos Brands on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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