AVO vs. CVGW, BRCC, BIOX, BGS, LESL, WEST, EWCZ, OLPX, OTLY, and LVRO
Should you be buying Mission Produce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mission Produce include Calavo Growers (CVGW), BRC (BRCC), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), B&G Foods (BGS), Leslie's (LESL), Westrock Coffee (WEST), European Wax Center (EWCZ), Olaplex (OLPX), Oatly Group (OTLY), and Lavoro (LVRO). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) and Mission Produce (NASDAQ:AVO) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Calavo Growers has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mission Produce has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mission Produce has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mission Produce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Calavo Growers received 297 more outperform votes than Mission Produce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.30% of users gave Calavo Growers an outperform vote while only 39.47% of users gave Mission Produce an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Calavo Growers had 2 more articles in the media than Mission Produce. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Calavo Growers and 1 mentions for Mission Produce. Calavo Growers' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Mission Produce's score of 0.65 indicating that Mission Produce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mission Produce has a net margin of 0.60% compared to Mission Produce's net margin of -1.32%. Calavo Growers' return on equity of 3.98% beat Mission Produce's return on equity.
81.3% of Calavo Growers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.6% of Mission Produce shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.1% of Calavo Growers shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.6% of Mission Produce shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Calavo Growers presently has a consensus price target of $38.50, indicating a potential upside of 34.80%. Mission Produce has a consensus price target of $11.50, indicating a potential downside of 3.44%. Given Mission Produce's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Calavo Growers is more favorable than Mission Produce.
Summary
Mission Produce beats Calavo Growers on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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