VSTS vs. UTZ, HELE, JJSF, TBBB, DNUT, GO, CCU, TR, WLY, and NWL
Should you be buying Vestis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vestis include Utz Brands (UTZ), Helen of Troy (HELE), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), BBB Foods (TBBB), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), Grocery Outlet (GO), Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (CCU), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), and Newell Brands (NWL). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) and Vestis (NYSE:VSTS) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Utz Brands currently has a consensus target price of $18.63, indicating a potential upside of 0.08%. Vestis has a consensus target price of $22.56, indicating a potential upside of 19.34%. Given Utz Brands' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Vestis is more favorable than Utz Brands.
Vestis has higher revenue and earnings than Utz Brands.
Vestis has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Vestis' net margin of -1.73%. Vestis' return on equity of 6.08% beat Utz Brands' return on equity.
In the previous week, Vestis had 4 more articles in the media than Utz Brands. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Vestis and 4 mentions for Utz Brands. Utz Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Vestis' score of 0.54 indicating that Vestis is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Utz Brands received 37 more outperform votes than Vestis when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Vestis an outperform vote while only 57.50% of users gave Utz Brands an outperform vote.
96.0% of Utz Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Vestis shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.0% of Utz Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Utz Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Vestis pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Utz Brands pays out -77.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Utz Brands has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Utz Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Utz Brands beats Vestis on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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