MGPI vs. EPC, THS, KLG, TLRY, ENR, WLYB, WLY, COCO, TR, and CHEF
Should you be buying MGP Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MGP Ingredients include Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), TreeHouse Foods (THS), WK Kellogg (KLG), Tilray (TLRY), Energizer (ENR), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Vita Coco (COCO), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), and Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) and MGP Ingredients (NASDAQ:MGPI) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Edgewell Personal Care received 216 more outperform votes than MGP Ingredients when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.65% of users gave MGP Ingredients an outperform vote while only 58.58% of users gave Edgewell Personal Care an outperform vote.
In the previous week, MGP Ingredients had 3 more articles in the media than Edgewell Personal Care. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for MGP Ingredients and 3 mentions for Edgewell Personal Care. MGP Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Edgewell Personal Care's score of -0.08 indicating that Edgewell Personal Care is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Edgewell Personal Care has higher revenue and earnings than MGP Ingredients. MGP Ingredients is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edgewell Personal Care, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Edgewell Personal Care currently has a consensus price target of $37.67, indicating a potential upside of 0.63%. MGP Ingredients has a consensus price target of $118.33, indicating a potential upside of 46.92%. Given Edgewell Personal Care's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MGP Ingredients is more favorable than Edgewell Personal Care.
Edgewell Personal Care has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MGP Ingredients has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Edgewell Personal Care pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. MGP Ingredients pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Edgewell Personal Care pays out 29.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MGP Ingredients pays out 10.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
MGP Ingredients has a net margin of 12.72% compared to MGP Ingredients' net margin of 4.66%. Edgewell Personal Care's return on equity of 16.03% beat MGP Ingredients' return on equity.
91.9% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.1% of MGP Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.7% of MGP Ingredients shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
MGP Ingredients beats Edgewell Personal Care on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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