EDUC vs. SANW, DALN, WVVI, NCRA, SEED, LOCL, SDOT, BRFH, VWE, and PETZ
Should you be buying Educational Development stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Educational Development include S&W Seed (SANW), DallasNews (DALN), Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVVI), Nocera (NCRA), Origin Agritech (SEED), Local Bounti (LOCL), Sadot Group (SDOT), Barfresh Food Group (BRFH), Vintage Wine Estates (VWE), and TDH (PETZ). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Educational Development (NASDAQ:EDUC) and S&W Seed (NASDAQ:SANW) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
S&W Seed has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 621.15%. Given S&W Seed's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe S&W Seed is more favorable than Educational Development.
S&W Seed received 147 more outperform votes than Educational Development when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.40% of users gave Educational Development an outperform vote while only 61.38% of users gave S&W Seed an outperform vote.
Educational Development has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&W Seed has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
S&W Seed has a net margin of 18.36% compared to Educational Development's net margin of 0.42%. Educational Development's return on equity of 0.53% beat S&W Seed's return on equity.
S&W Seed has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Educational Development. S&W Seed is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Educational Development, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Educational Development had 82 more articles in the media than S&W Seed. MarketBeat recorded 85 mentions for Educational Development and 3 mentions for S&W Seed. S&W Seed's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Educational Development's score of 0.03 indicating that S&W Seed is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
19.6% of Educational Development shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of S&W Seed shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.2% of Educational Development shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of S&W Seed shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Educational Development and S&W Seed tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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