VITL vs. BGS, OTLY, BYND, NOMD, SMPL, SCHL, JBSS, AGRO, NAPA, and FDP
Should you be buying Vital Farms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vital Farms include B&G Foods (BGS), Oatly Group (OTLY), Beyond Meat (BYND), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Scholastic (SCHL), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Adecoagro (AGRO), Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA), and Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) and Vital Farms (NASDAQ:VITL) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
In the previous week, Vital Farms had 11 more articles in the media than B&G Foods. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Vital Farms and 2 mentions for B&G Foods. Vital Farms' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat B&G Foods' score of 0.47 indicating that B&G Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vital Farms has lower revenue, but higher earnings than B&G Foods. B&G Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vital Farms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vital Farms has a net margin of 5.42% compared to Vital Farms' net margin of -3.21%. B&G Foods' return on equity of 14.22% beat Vital Farms' return on equity.
B&G Foods has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vital Farms has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
66.2% of B&G Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.6% of Vital Farms shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of B&G Foods shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 30.2% of Vital Farms shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
B&G Foods received 334 more outperform votes than Vital Farms when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.97% of users gave B&G Foods an outperform vote while only 39.22% of users gave Vital Farms an outperform vote.
B&G Foods currently has a consensus price target of $9.50, suggesting a potential downside of 14.10%. Vital Farms has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential downside of 14.81%. Given Vital Farms' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe B&G Foods is more favorable than Vital Farms.
Summary
Vital Farms beats B&G Foods on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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