STKL vs. UVV, DTCK, ANDE, ENR, TR, UTZ, THS, EPC, GO, and DNUT
Should you be buying SunOpta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunOpta include Universal (UVV), Davis Commodities (DTCK), Andersons (ANDE), Energizer (ENR), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), Utz Brands (UTZ), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Grocery Outlet (GO), and Krispy Kreme (DNUT).
SunOpta (NASDAQ:STKL) and Universal (NYSE:UVV) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
In the previous week, SunOpta and SunOpta both had 5 articles in the media. SunOpta's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Universal's score of 0.51 indicating that SunOpta is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SunOpta received 355 more outperform votes than Universal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.41% of users gave SunOpta an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Universal an outperform vote.
85.4% of SunOpta shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Universal shares are held by institutional investors. 6.5% of SunOpta shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Universal shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SunOpta has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Universal has higher revenue and earnings than SunOpta. SunOpta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Universal has a net margin of 4.35% compared to SunOpta's net margin of -24.00%. Universal's return on equity of 8.81% beat SunOpta's return on equity.
SunOpta currently has a consensus target price of $9.25, indicating a potential upside of 76.86%. Given SunOpta's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe SunOpta is more favorable than Universal.
Summary
SunOpta beats Universal on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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