MATW vs. OLPX, LESL, BGS, AVO, WEST, STKL, BRCC, BIOX, EWCZ, and LVRO
Should you be buying Matthews International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Matthews International include Olaplex (OLPX), Leslie's (LESL), B&G Foods (BGS), Mission Produce (AVO), Westrock Coffee (WEST), SunOpta (STKL), BRC (BRCC), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), European Wax Center (EWCZ), and Lavoro (LVRO). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Matthews International (NASDAQ:MATW) and Olaplex (NASDAQ:OLPX) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Matthews International has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olaplex has a beta of 2.28, meaning that its stock price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Olaplex has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Matthews International. Olaplex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Matthews International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Olaplex has a net margin of 13.44% compared to Matthews International's net margin of 1.77%. Matthews International's return on equity of 16.44% beat Olaplex's return on equity.
83.1% of Matthews International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.4% of Olaplex shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Matthews International shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Olaplex shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Matthews International received 233 more outperform votes than Olaplex when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.44% of users gave Matthews International an outperform vote while only 34.52% of users gave Olaplex an outperform vote.
Matthews International currently has a consensus target price of $59.00, suggesting a potential upside of 117.31%. Olaplex has a consensus target price of $2.59, suggesting a potential upside of 93.62%. Given Matthews International's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Matthews International is more favorable than Olaplex.
In the previous week, Matthews International had 2 more articles in the media than Olaplex. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Matthews International and 8 mentions for Olaplex. Olaplex's average media sentiment score of -0.02 beat Matthews International's score of -0.16 indicating that Olaplex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Matthews International beats Olaplex on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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