UNFI vs. CHEF, TPB, CRESY, ARKO, EWCZ, BGS, LVRO, NUS, STKL, and HAIN
Should you be buying United Natural Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Natural Foods include Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), Turning Point Brands (TPB), Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria (CRESY), Arko (ARKO), European Wax Center (EWCZ), B&G Foods (BGS), Lavoro (LVRO), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), SunOpta (STKL), and The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
United Natural Foods (NYSE:UNFI) and Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Chefs' Warehouse has lower revenue, but higher earnings than United Natural Foods. United Natural Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chefs' Warehouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Chefs' Warehouse had 3 more articles in the media than United Natural Foods. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Chefs' Warehouse and 1 mentions for United Natural Foods. United Natural Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Chefs' Warehouse's score of -0.03 indicating that United Natural Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Chefs' Warehouse has a net margin of 0.98% compared to United Natural Foods' net margin of -0.38%. Chefs' Warehouse's return on equity of 12.30% beat United Natural Foods' return on equity.
United Natural Foods received 225 more outperform votes than Chefs' Warehouse when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.89% of users gave Chefs' Warehouse an outperform vote while only 55.69% of users gave United Natural Foods an outperform vote.
United Natural Foods has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 2.22, meaning that its share price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
United Natural Foods currently has a consensus target price of $13.40, indicating a potential upside of 19.54%. Chefs' Warehouse has a consensus target price of $48.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.33%. Given Chefs' Warehouse's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chefs' Warehouse is more favorable than United Natural Foods.
87.6% of United Natural Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of United Natural Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Chefs' Warehouse beats United Natural Foods on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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