CVGW vs. AVO, LND, YSG, BYND, DJCO, WALD, SENEA, CRESY, TPB, and CBUS
Should you be buying Calavo Growers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Calavo Growers include Mission Produce (AVO), BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND), Yatsen (YSG), Beyond Meat (BYND), Daily Journal (DJCO), Waldencast (WALD), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria (CRESY), Turning Point Brands (TPB), and Cibus (CBUS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Mission Produce (NASDAQ:AVO) and Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
Mission Produce currently has a consensus price target of $12.38, suggesting a potential downside of 3.85%. Calavo Growers has a consensus price target of $38.50, suggesting a potential upside of 40.26%. Given Mission Produce's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Calavo Growers is more favorable than Mission Produce.
Mission Produce has a net margin of 0.60% compared to Mission Produce's net margin of -1.32%. Calavo Growers' return on equity of 3.98% beat Mission Produce's return on equity.
Calavo Growers received 296 more outperform votes than Mission Produce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.30% of users gave Calavo Growers an outperform vote while only 41.03% of users gave Mission Produce an outperform vote.
Mission Produce has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mission Produce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mission Produce has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Calavo Growers has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Mission Produce had 13 more articles in the media than Calavo Growers. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Mission Produce and 0 mentions for Calavo Growers. Mission Produce's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Calavo Growers' score of 0.51 indicating that Calavo Growers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
63.6% of Mission Produce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of Calavo Growers shares are held by institutional investors. 41.6% of Mission Produce shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Calavo Growers shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Mission Produce beats Calavo Growers on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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