AGRO vs. FDP, LND, LMNR, BRCC, JBSS, LESL, OLPX, SCHL, WEST, and NAPA
Should you be buying Adecoagro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Adecoagro include Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND), Limoneira (LMNR), BRC (BRCC), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Leslie's (LESL), Olaplex (OLPX), Scholastic (SCHL), Westrock Coffee (WEST), and Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Adecoagro (NYSE:AGRO) and Fresh Del Monte Produce (NYSE:FDP) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Adecoagro has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fresh Del Monte Produce. Fresh Del Monte Produce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adecoagro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Adecoagro currently has a consensus target price of $12.17, suggesting a potential upside of 17.89%. Given Adecoagro's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Adecoagro is more favorable than Fresh Del Monte Produce.
Adecoagro pays an annual dividend of $0.33 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Fresh Del Monte Produce pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Adecoagro pays out 14.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fresh Del Monte Produce pays out -196.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Fresh Del Monte Produce is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Adecoagro has a net margin of 19.18% compared to Fresh Del Monte Produce's net margin of -0.56%. Adecoagro's return on equity of 10.84% beat Fresh Del Monte Produce's return on equity.
In the previous week, Adecoagro had 8 more articles in the media than Fresh Del Monte Produce. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Adecoagro and 3 mentions for Fresh Del Monte Produce. Fresh Del Monte Produce's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Adecoagro's score of 0.86 indicating that Fresh Del Monte Produce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fresh Del Monte Produce received 14 more outperform votes than Adecoagro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.56% of users gave Fresh Del Monte Produce an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Adecoagro an outperform vote.
45.3% of Adecoagro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Adecoagro shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.7% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Adecoagro has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fresh Del Monte Produce has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Adecoagro beats Fresh Del Monte Produce on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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