VITL vs. BGS, OTLY, HAIN, BYND, NOMD, SMPL, AGRO, JBSS, FDP, and SCHL
Should you be buying Vital Farms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vital Farms include B&G Foods (BGS), Oatly Group (OTLY), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Beyond Meat (BYND), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Adecoagro (AGRO), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), and Scholastic (SCHL). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) and Vital Farms (NASDAQ:VITL) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
66.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.6% of Vital Farms shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.2% of Vital Farms shares are owned by 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.
B&G Foods has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vital Farms has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
B&G Foods received 334 more outperform votes than Vital Farms when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.97% of users gave B&G Foods an outperform vote while only 39.22% of users gave Vital Farms an outperform vote.
In the previous week, B&G Foods had 8 more articles in the media than Vital Farms. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for B&G Foods and 5 mentions for Vital Farms. B&G Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Vital Farms' score of -0.22 indicating that Vital Farms is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
B&G Foods currently has a consensus price target of $9.50, suggesting a potential downside of 17.75%. Vital Farms has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential downside of 38.32%. Given Vital Farms' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe B&G Foods is more favorable than Vital Farms.
Vital Farms has lower revenue, but higher earnings than B&G Foods. B&G Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vital Farms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vital Farms has a net margin of 5.42% compared to Vital Farms' net margin of -3.21%. B&G Foods' return on equity of 14.22% beat Vital Farms' return on equity.
Summary
Vital Farms beats B&G Foods on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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