SANW vs. LOCL, SEED, RGF, NCRA, SDOT, EDUC, XXII, PETZ, DALN, and VWE
Should you be buying S&W Seed stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&W Seed include Local Bounti (LOCL), Origin Agritech (SEED), Real Good Food (RGF), Nocera (NCRA), Sadot Group (SDOT), Educational Development (EDUC), 22nd Century Group (XXII), TDH (PETZ), DallasNews (DALN), and Vintage Wine Estates (VWE). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
S&W Seed (NASDAQ:SANW) and Local Bounti (NYSE:LOCL) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
S&W Seed has a net margin of -36.60% compared to Local Bounti's net margin of -425.89%. S&W Seed's return on equity of -33.78% beat Local Bounti's return on equity.
Local Bounti has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 200.00%. Given Local Bounti's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Local Bounti is more favorable than S&W Seed.
S&W Seed received 342 more outperform votes than Local Bounti when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.16% of users gave S&W Seed an outperform vote while only 31.58% of users gave Local Bounti an outperform vote.
S&W Seed has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Local Bounti has a beta of 2.57, indicating that its stock price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500.
S&W Seed has higher revenue and earnings than Local Bounti. S&W Seed is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Local Bounti, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, S&W Seed had 7 more articles in the media than Local Bounti. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for S&W Seed and 3 mentions for Local Bounti. Local Bounti's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat S&W Seed's score of 0.14 indicating that Local Bounti is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
61.7% of S&W Seed shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.0% of Local Bounti shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of S&W Seed shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 38.1% of Local Bounti shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
S&W Seed beats Local Bounti on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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