AGRO vs. FDP, LMNR, JBSS, VITL, UVV, SCHL, CHEF, OLPX, TLRY, and COCO
Should you be buying Adecoagro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Adecoagro include Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), Limoneira (LMNR), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Vital Farms (VITL), Universal (UVV), Scholastic (SCHL), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), Olaplex (OLPX), Tilray (TLRY), and Vita Coco (COCO). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Adecoagro (NYSE:AGRO) and Fresh Del Monte Produce (NYSE:FDP) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Adecoagro has a net margin of 17.42% compared to Fresh Del Monte Produce's net margin of -0.26%. Adecoagro's return on equity of 10.86% beat Fresh Del Monte Produce's return on equity.
In the previous week, Adecoagro had 2 more articles in the media than Fresh Del Monte Produce. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Adecoagro and 2 mentions for Fresh Del Monte Produce. Fresh Del Monte Produce's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Adecoagro's score of 0.88 indicating that Fresh Del Monte Produce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Adecoagro currently has a consensus target price of $12.17, indicating a potential upside of 14.19%. Given Adecoagro's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Adecoagro is more favorable than Fresh Del Monte Produce.
Adecoagro has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fresh Del Monte Produce. Fresh Del Monte Produce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adecoagro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Adecoagro pays an annual dividend of $0.33 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Fresh Del Monte Produce pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Adecoagro pays out 15.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fresh Del Monte Produce pays out -400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Fresh Del Monte Produce is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Fresh Del Monte Produce received 16 more outperform votes than Adecoagro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.56% of users gave Fresh Del Monte Produce an outperform vote while only 59.80% of users gave Adecoagro an outperform vote.
45.3% of Adecoagro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are held by institutional investors. 37.0% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Adecoagro has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fresh Del Monte Produce has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Adecoagro beats Fresh Del Monte Produce on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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