UVV vs. FDP, CHEF, COCO, JBSS, AGRO, VITL, SCHL, NAPA, OLPX, and WEST
Should you be buying Universal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Universal include Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), Vita Coco (COCO), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Adecoagro (AGRO), Vital Farms (VITL), Scholastic (SCHL), Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA), Olaplex (OLPX), and Westrock Coffee (WEST). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Fresh Del Monte Produce (NYSE:FDP) and Universal (NYSE:UVV) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
Fresh Del Monte Produce has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fresh Del Monte Produce received 72 more outperform votes than Universal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.56% of users gave Fresh Del Monte Produce an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Universal an outperform vote.
Universal has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fresh Del Monte Produce. Fresh Del Monte Produce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fresh Del Monte Produce pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Universal pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Fresh Del Monte Produce pays out -196.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Universal pays out 60.3% 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 has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Universal has raised its dividend for 54 consecutive years. Universal is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Fresh Del Monte Produce had 14 more articles in the media than Universal. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Fresh Del Monte Produce and 3 mentions for Universal. Universal's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Fresh Del Monte Produce's score of 0.25 indicating that Fresh Del Monte Produce is being referred to more favorably in the media.
64.8% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Universal shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.0% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Universal shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Universal has a net margin of 4.98% compared to Universal's net margin of -0.56%. Fresh Del Monte Produce's return on equity of 7.46% beat Universal's return on equity.
Summary
Universal beats Fresh Del Monte Produce on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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