UVV vs. STKL, FDP, CHEF, COCO, AGRO, JBSS, TLRY, VITL, SCHL, and NAPA
Should you be buying Universal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Universal include SunOpta (STKL), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), Vita Coco (COCO), Adecoagro (AGRO), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Tilray (TLRY), Vital Farms (VITL), Scholastic (SCHL), and Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Universal (NYSE:UVV) and SunOpta (NASDAQ:STKL) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
SunOpta has a consensus target price of $9.40, suggesting a potential upside of 42.21%. Given SunOpta's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SunOpta is more favorable than Universal.
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.
In the previous week, Universal had 3 more articles in the media than SunOpta. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Universal and 3 mentions for SunOpta. SunOpta's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Universal's score of -0.09 indicating that SunOpta is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Universal has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SunOpta has a beta of 1.73, meaning that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
81.0% of Universal shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.4% of SunOpta shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Universal shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of SunOpta shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Summary
SunOpta beats Universal on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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