MED vs. CSV, CBUS, LMNR, YSG, SENEA, BYND, CVGW, DJCO, TPB, and FREE
Should you be buying Medifast stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Medifast include Carriage Services (CSV), Cibus (CBUS), Limoneira (LMNR), Yatsen (YSG), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Beyond Meat (BYND), Calavo Growers (CVGW), Daily Journal (DJCO), Turning Point Brands (TPB), and Whole Earth Brands (FREE). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV) and Medifast (NYSE:MED) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and media sentiment.
66.5% of Carriage Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Medifast shares are held by institutional investors. 11.3% of Carriage Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Medifast shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Medifast has a net margin of 9.27% compared to Medifast's net margin of 8.73%. Carriage Services' return on equity of 56.06% beat Medifast's return on equity.
Carriage Services currently has a consensus price target of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 50.91%. Medifast has a consensus price target of $61.00, indicating a potential upside of 82.47%. Given Carriage Services' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Medifast is more favorable than Carriage Services.
Medifast has higher revenue and earnings than Carriage Services. Medifast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carriage Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Carriage Services had 6 more articles in the media than Medifast. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Carriage Services and 1 mentions for Medifast. Medifast's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Carriage Services' score of 0.13 indicating that Carriage Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Medifast received 88 more outperform votes than Carriage Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.60% of users gave Carriage Services an outperform vote while only 64.05% of users gave Medifast an outperform vote.
Carriage Services has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Medifast has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Medifast beats Carriage Services on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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