VSTS vs. CENT, CENTA, NHTC, HYFM, EDUC, BROS, LANC, FLO, OLLI, and RH
Should you be buying Vestis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vestis include Central Garden & Pet (CENT), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Natural Health Trends (NHTC), Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM), Educational Development (EDUC), Dutch Bros (BROS), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), and RH (RH).
Vestis (NYSE:VSTS) and Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENT) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Vestis currently has a consensus target price of $16.38, suggesting a potential upside of 32.94%. Central Garden & Pet has a consensus target price of $53.50, suggesting a potential upside of 23.13%. Given Vestis' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Vestis is more favorable than Central Garden & Pet.
In the previous week, Central Garden & Pet had 1 more articles in the media than Vestis. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Central Garden & Pet and 20 mentions for Vestis. Vestis' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Central Garden & Pet's score of 0.36 indicating that Vestis is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vestis has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Central Garden & Pet.
Central Garden & Pet received 241 more outperform votes than Vestis when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.76% of users gave Central Garden & Pet an outperform vote while only 52.63% of users gave Vestis an outperform vote.
Central Garden & Pet has a net margin of 4.49% compared to Vestis' net margin of 0.00%. Central Garden & Pet's return on equity of 11.30% beat Vestis' return on equity.
97.4% of Vestis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.1% of Central Garden & Pet shares are held by institutional investors. 9.5% of Central Garden & Pet shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Central Garden & Pet beats Vestis on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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