LOCL vs. SEED, DALN, EDUC, BRFH, WVVI, VWE, NCRA, SDOT, DTCK, and PETZ
Should you be buying Local Bounti stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Local Bounti include Origin Agritech (SEED), DallasNews (DALN), Educational Development (EDUC), Barfresh Food Group (BRFH), Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVVI), Vintage Wine Estates (VWE), Nocera (NCRA), Sadot Group (SDOT), Davis Commodities (DTCK), and TDH (PETZ). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Local Bounti (NYSE:LOCL) and Origin Agritech (NASDAQ:SEED) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Local Bounti currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 188.46%. Given Local Bounti's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Local Bounti is more favorable than Origin Agritech.
Local Bounti has a beta of 2.66, meaning that its share price is 166% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Origin Agritech has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
28.0% of Local Bounti shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.7% of Origin Agritech shares are held by institutional investors. 36.0% of Local Bounti shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Origin Agritech has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Local Bounti's net margin of -450.03%. Origin Agritech's return on equity of 0.00% beat Local Bounti's return on equity.
In the previous week, Origin Agritech had 1 more articles in the media than Local Bounti. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Origin Agritech and 4 mentions for Local Bounti. Origin Agritech's average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat Local Bounti's score of -0.15 indicating that Origin Agritech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Origin Agritech has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Local Bounti.
Origin Agritech received 209 more outperform votes than Local Bounti when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.15% of users gave Origin Agritech an outperform vote while only 31.58% of users gave Local Bounti an outperform vote.
Summary
Origin Agritech beats Local Bounti on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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