VSTS vs. UVV, VITL, FDP, AGRO, JBSS, CHEF, COCO, OLPX, SCHL, and TLRY
Should you be buying Vestis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vestis include Universal (UVV), Vital Farms (VITL), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), Adecoagro (AGRO), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), Vita Coco (COCO), Olaplex (OLPX), Scholastic (SCHL), and Tilray (TLRY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Vestis (NYSE:VSTS) and Universal (NYSE:UVV) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Universal has a net margin of 4.98% compared to Vestis' net margin of 0.00%. Universal's return on equity of 7.46% beat Vestis' return on equity.
Vestis currently has a consensus target price of $16.38, indicating a potential upside of 33.26%. Given Vestis' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Vestis is more favorable than Universal.
97.4% of Vestis shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Universal shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Universal shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vestis has higher revenue and earnings than Universal.
Universal received 172 more outperform votes than Vestis when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.33% of users gave Universal an outperform vote while only 55.56% of users gave Vestis an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Vestis had 31 more articles in the media than Universal. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Vestis and 4 mentions for Universal. Vestis' average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Universal's score of -0.06 indicating that Vestis is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vestis pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Universal pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Universal pays out 60.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Vestis beats Universal on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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