BROS vs. FRPT, LANC, FLO, RH, OLLI, NTCOY, FIZZ, IPAR, SMPL, and BRFS
Should you be buying Dutch Bros stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dutch Bros include Freshpet (FRPT), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), RH (RH), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), Natura &Co (NTCOY), National Beverage (FIZZ), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), and BRF (BRFS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Dutch Bros (NYSE:BROS) and Freshpet (NASDAQ:FRPT) are both mid-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, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
85.5% of Dutch Bros shares are held by institutional investors. 46.5% of Dutch Bros shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Freshpet 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.
Freshpet received 435 more outperform votes than Dutch Bros when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.24% of users gave Freshpet an outperform vote while only 44.71% of users gave Dutch Bros an outperform vote.
Dutch Bros has higher revenue and earnings than Freshpet. Dutch Bros is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freshpet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dutch Bros has a net margin of 1.21% compared to Freshpet's net margin of 1.19%. Dutch Bros' return on equity of 1.99% beat Freshpet's return on equity.
In the previous week, Dutch Bros had 4 more articles in the media than Freshpet. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for Dutch Bros and 45 mentions for Freshpet. Freshpet's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Dutch Bros' score of 0.47 indicating that Freshpet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dutch Bros currently has a consensus target price of $36.67, suggesting a potential upside of 1.77%. Freshpet has a consensus target price of $119.71, suggesting a potential downside of 0.31%. Given Dutch Bros' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Dutch Bros is more favorable than Freshpet.
Dutch Bros has a beta of 2.43, suggesting that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freshpet has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Dutch Bros beats Freshpet on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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