SENEA vs. LNDC, JBSS, BGS, HAIN, CVGW, LWAY, FARM, SJM, MDLZ, and HSY
Should you be buying Seneca Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Seneca Foods include Landec (LNDC), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Calavo Growers (CVGW), Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Farmer Bros. (FARM), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Mondelez International (MDLZ), and Hershey (HSY).
Landec (NASDAQ:LNDC) and Seneca Foods (NASDAQ:SENEA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Seneca Foods has a net margin of 3.81% compared to Seneca Foods' net margin of -36.49%. Landec's return on equity of 14.48% beat Seneca Foods' return on equity.
Landec received 155 more outperform votes than Seneca Foods when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Seneca Foods an outperform vote while only 52.69% of users gave Landec an outperform vote.
Seneca Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Landec. Landec is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seneca Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
85.8% of Landec shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.5% of Seneca Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 14.6% of Landec shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Seneca Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Landec has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seneca Foods has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Seneca Foods had 4 more articles in the media than Landec. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Seneca Foods and 0 mentions for Landec. Seneca Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Landec's score of 0.33 indicating that Landec is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Seneca Foods beats Landec on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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