STKL vs. UVV, BIOX, EWCZ, AVO, MATW, LVRO, BGS, WALD, WEST, and NUS
Should you be buying SunOpta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunOpta include Universal (UVV), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), European Wax Center (EWCZ), Mission Produce (AVO), Matthews International (MATW), Lavoro (LVRO), B&G Foods (BGS), Waldencast (WALD), Westrock Coffee (WEST), and Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
SunOpta (NASDAQ:STKL) and Universal (NYSE:UVV) 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 profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
SunOpta received 355 more outperform votes than Universal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.02% of users gave SunOpta an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Universal an outperform vote.
SunOpta currently has a consensus price target of $9.40, indicating a potential upside of 59.86%. Given SunOpta's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe SunOpta is more favorable than Universal.
SunOpta has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% 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 4.98% compared to SunOpta's net margin of -22.85%. Universal's return on equity of 7.46% beat SunOpta's return on equity.
In the previous week, SunOpta and SunOpta both had 1 articles in the media. Universal's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat SunOpta's score of 0.00 indicating that Universal is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
85.4% of SunOpta shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Universal shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.7% of SunOpta shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Universal shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
SunOpta and Universal tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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