STKL vs. UVV, NUS, HAIN, LVRO, BGS, EWCZ, ARKO, OTLY, BIOX, and UNFI
Should you be buying SunOpta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunOpta include Universal (UVV), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Lavoro (LVRO), B&G Foods (BGS), European Wax Center (EWCZ), Arko (ARKO), Oatly Group (OTLY), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), and United Natural Foods (UNFI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
SunOpta (NASDAQ:STKL) and Universal (NYSE:UVV) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
SunOpta has a beta of 1.73, indicating that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SunOpta presently has a consensus price target of $9.40, suggesting a potential upside of 69.68%. Given SunOpta's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SunOpta is more favorable than Universal.
85.4% of SunOpta shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Universal shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.5% of SunOpta shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Universal shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, SunOpta had 1 more articles in the media than Universal. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for SunOpta and 4 mentions for Universal. SunOpta's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Universal's score of 0.03 indicating that SunOpta is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Universal has a net margin of 4.98% compared to SunOpta's net margin of -24.00%. Universal's return on equity of 7.46% beat SunOpta's return on equity.
SunOpta received 355 more outperform votes than Universal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.93% of users gave SunOpta an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Universal an outperform vote.
Universal has higher revenue and earnings than SunOpta. SunOpta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
SunOpta beats Universal on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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