OTLY vs. LWAY, VITL, BGS, HAIN, BYND, BRLS, SOWG, OXUS, BHIL, and RGF
Should you be buying Oatly Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oatly Group include Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Vital Farms (VITL), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Beyond Meat (BYND), Borealis Foods (BRLS), Sow Good (SOWG), Oxus Acquisition (OXUS), Benson Hill (BHIL), and Real Good Food (RGF).
Oatly Group (NASDAQ:OTLY) and Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ:LWAY) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Lifeway Foods has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Oatly Group. Oatly Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lifeway Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lifeway Foods received 261 more outperform votes than Oatly Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.07% of users gave Lifeway Foods an outperform vote while only 41.84% of users gave Oatly Group an outperform vote.
Lifeway Foods has a net margin of 7.77% compared to Oatly Group's net margin of -49.19%. Lifeway Foods' return on equity of 22.34% beat Oatly Group's return on equity.
Oatly Group has a beta of 2.19, meaning that its share price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lifeway Foods has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
68.2% of Oatly Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.4% of Lifeway Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Oatly Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.8% of Lifeway Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Lifeway Foods had 4 more articles in the media than Oatly Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Lifeway Foods and 4 mentions for Oatly Group. Oatly Group's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Lifeway Foods' score of 1.07 indicating that Oatly Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Oatly Group presently has a consensus target price of $2.11, suggesting a potential upside of 97.60%. Lifeway Foods has a consensus target price of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 53.06%. Given Oatly Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Oatly Group is more favorable than Lifeway Foods.
Summary
Lifeway Foods beats Oatly Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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