FREE vs. TDUP, ALCO, PRPL, MAMA, PLIN, CDZI, HFFG, MED, VFF, and BRID
Should you be buying Whole Earth Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Whole Earth Brands include ThredUp (TDUP), Alico (ALCO), Purple Innovation (PRPL), Mama's Creations (MAMA), China Xiangtai Food (PLIN), Cadiz (CDZI), HF Foods Group (HFFG), Medifast (MED), Village Farms International (VFF), and Bridgford Foods (BRID). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Whole Earth Brands (NASDAQ:FREE) and ThredUp (NASDAQ:TDUP) 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 valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
82.1% of Whole Earth Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of ThredUp shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Whole Earth Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 34.4% of ThredUp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Whole Earth Brands has a net margin of -5.05% compared to ThredUp's net margin of -20.88%. Whole Earth Brands' return on equity of -11.00% beat ThredUp's return on equity.
ThredUp received 38 more outperform votes than Whole Earth Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.14% of users gave ThredUp an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Whole Earth Brands an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ThredUp had 24 more articles in the media than Whole Earth Brands. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for ThredUp and 5 mentions for Whole Earth Brands. Whole Earth Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat ThredUp's score of -0.08 indicating that Whole Earth Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Whole Earth Brands has higher revenue and earnings than ThredUp. Whole Earth Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ThredUp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ThredUp has a consensus target price of $3.33, suggesting a potential upside of 64.20%. Given ThredUp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ThredUp is more favorable than Whole Earth Brands.
Whole Earth Brands has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ThredUp has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ThredUp beats Whole Earth Brands on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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