VSTS vs. COCO, TLRY, CHEF, VITL, MGPI, THS, KLG, UVV, GO, and EPC
Should you be buying Vestis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vestis include Vita Coco (COCO), Tilray (TLRY), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), Vital Farms (VITL), MGP Ingredients (MGPI), TreeHouse Foods (THS), WK Kellogg (KLG), Universal (UVV), Grocery Outlet (GO), and Edgewell Personal Care (EPC). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Vita Coco (NASDAQ:COCO) and Vestis (NYSE:VSTS) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
In the previous week, Vestis had 16 more articles in the media than Vita Coco. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Vestis and 4 mentions for Vita Coco. Vestis' average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Vita Coco's score of 1.25 indicating that Vita Coco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vita Coco presently has a consensus price target of $29.67, indicating a potential upside of 12.33%. Vestis has a consensus price target of $16.38, indicating a potential upside of 30.81%. Given Vita Coco's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Vestis is more favorable than Vita Coco.
Vita Coco received 17 more outperform votes than Vestis when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.79% of users gave Vita Coco an outperform vote while only 55.56% of users gave Vestis an outperform vote.
Vestis has higher revenue and earnings than Vita Coco.
Vita Coco has a net margin of 10.93% compared to Vita Coco's net margin of 0.00%. Vestis' return on equity of 26.27% beat Vita Coco's return on equity.
88.5% of Vita Coco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Vestis shares are held by institutional investors. 34.2% of Vita Coco shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Vita Coco beats Vestis on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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