SENEA vs. CSV, LMNR, LWAY, YSG, CBUS, ARKO, CVGW, LND, DJCO, and WALD
Should you be buying Seneca Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Seneca Foods include Carriage Services (CSV), Limoneira (LMNR), Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Yatsen (YSG), Cibus (CBUS), Arko (ARKO), Calavo Growers (CVGW), BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND), Daily Journal (DJCO), and Waldencast (WALD). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV) and Seneca Foods (NASDAQ:SENEA) 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 dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Carriage Services has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seneca Foods has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Carriage Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Seneca Foods. Seneca Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carriage Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
66.5% of Carriage Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.5% of Seneca Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 11.3% of Carriage Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Seneca Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Carriage Services has a net margin of 8.08% compared to Carriage Services' net margin of 3.81%. Seneca Foods' return on equity of 22.04% beat Carriage Services' return on equity.
Carriage Services currently has a consensus price target of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 31.93%. Given Seneca Foods' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Carriage Services is more favorable than Seneca Foods.
In the previous week, Carriage Services had 3 more articles in the media than Seneca Foods. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Carriage Services and 6 mentions for Seneca Foods. Seneca Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Carriage Services' score of 0.26 indicating that Carriage Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Carriage Services received 168 more outperform votes than Seneca Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.59% of users gave Carriage Services an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Seneca Foods an outperform vote.
Summary
Carriage Services beats Seneca Foods on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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