MGPI vs. KLG, THS, VSTS, DNUT, TLRY, GO, EPC, VITL, COCO, and WLYB
Should you be buying MGP Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MGP Ingredients include WK Kellogg (KLG), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Vestis (VSTS), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), Tilray (TLRY), Grocery Outlet (GO), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Vital Farms (VITL), Vita Coco (COCO), and John Wiley & Sons (WLYB). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
WK Kellogg (NYSE:KLG) and MGP Ingredients (NASDAQ:MGPI) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
WK Kellogg pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. MGP Ingredients pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. MGP Ingredients pays out 11.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
MGP Ingredients received 264 more outperform votes than WK Kellogg when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.83% of users gave MGP Ingredients an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave WK Kellogg an outperform vote.
95.7% of WK Kellogg shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.1% of MGP Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of WK Kellogg shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.2% of MGP Ingredients shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
WK Kellogg presently has a consensus target price of $16.95, indicating a potential downside of 19.09%. MGP Ingredients has a consensus target price of $117.33, indicating a potential upside of 47.31%. Given WK Kellogg's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MGP Ingredients is more favorable than WK Kellogg.
WK Kellogg has higher revenue and earnings than MGP Ingredients.
MGP Ingredients has a net margin of 11.91% compared to MGP Ingredients' net margin of 0.00%. WK Kellogg's return on equity of 14.78% beat MGP Ingredients' return on equity.
In the previous week, WK Kellogg had 1 more articles in the media than MGP Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for WK Kellogg and 6 mentions for MGP Ingredients. MGP Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat WK Kellogg's score of 0.28 indicating that WK Kellogg is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
MGP Ingredients beats WK Kellogg on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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