UTZ vs. GO, TBBB, NOMD, HELE, JJSF, WDFC, DNUT, WLY, TR, and WLYB
Should you be buying Utz Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Utz Brands include Grocery Outlet (GO), BBB Foods (TBBB), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Helen of Troy (HELE), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), WD-40 (WDFC), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), and John Wiley & Sons (WLYB). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) and Grocery Outlet (NASDAQ:GO) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Utz Brands received 27 more outperform votes than Grocery Outlet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave Utz Brands an outperform vote while only 32.00% of users gave Grocery Outlet an outperform vote.
Grocery Outlet has a net margin of 1.60% compared to Utz Brands' net margin of -1.38%. Utz Brands' return on equity of 6.16% beat Grocery Outlet's return on equity.
Utz Brands presently has a consensus target price of $20.42, suggesting a potential upside of 11.44%. Grocery Outlet has a consensus target price of $28.90, suggesting a potential upside of 38.34%. Given Grocery Outlet's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Grocery Outlet is more favorable than Utz Brands.
96.0% of Utz Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Grocery Outlet shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.0% of Utz Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Grocery Outlet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Grocery Outlet had 14 more articles in the media than Utz Brands. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Grocery Outlet and 19 mentions for Utz Brands. Utz Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Grocery Outlet's score of 0.07 indicating that Utz Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Utz Brands has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grocery Outlet has a beta of 0.13, meaning that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Grocery Outlet has higher revenue and earnings than Utz Brands. Utz Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grocery Outlet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Utz Brands beats Grocery Outlet on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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