DJCO vs. CVGW, BYND, ARKO, TPB, SENEA, LND, WALD, UNFI, CSV, and HAIN
Should you be buying Daily Journal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Daily Journal include Calavo Growers (CVGW), Beyond Meat (BYND), Arko (ARKO), Turning Point Brands (TPB), Seneca Foods (SENEA), BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND), Waldencast (WALD), United Natural Foods (UNFI), Carriage Services (CSV), and The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) and Daily Journal (NASDAQ:DJCO) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
81.3% of Calavo Growers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.2% of Daily Journal shares are held by institutional investors. 7.1% of Calavo Growers shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Daily Journal shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Calavo Growers had 3 more articles in the media than Daily Journal. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Calavo Growers and 0 mentions for Daily Journal. Daily Journal's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Calavo Growers' score of 0.10 indicating that Calavo Growers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Daily Journal has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Daily Journal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Calavo Growers currently has a consensus price target of $38.50, suggesting a potential upside of 36.14%. Given Daily Journal's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Calavo Growers is more favorable than Daily Journal.
Daily Journal has a net margin of 22.75% compared to Daily Journal's net margin of -1.32%. Calavo Growers' return on equity of 11.20% beat Daily Journal's return on equity.
Calavo Growers has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Daily Journal has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Calavo Growers received 147 more outperform votes than Daily Journal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.30% of users gave Calavo Growers an outperform vote while only 57.69% of users gave Daily Journal an outperform vote.
Summary
Calavo Growers beats Daily Journal on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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