VITL vs. OTLY, HAIN, BGS, BYND, NOMD, SMPL, FLO, COCO, CHEF, and TLRY
Should you be buying Vital Farms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vital Farms include Oatly Group (OTLY), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), B&G Foods (BGS), Beyond Meat (BYND), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Flowers Foods (FLO), Vita Coco (COCO), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), and Tilray (TLRY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Oatly Group (NASDAQ:OTLY) and Vital Farms (NASDAQ:VITL) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
In the previous week, Vital Farms had 17 more articles in the media than Oatly Group. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Vital Farms and 5 mentions for Oatly Group. Vital Farms' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Oatly Group's score of 0.48 indicating that Oatly Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Oatly Group has a beta of 2.19, meaning that its share price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vital Farms has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Vital Farms has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Oatly Group. Oatly Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vital Farms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
68.2% of Oatly Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.6% of Vital Farms shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Oatly Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.2% of Vital Farms shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Oatly Group received 20 more outperform votes than Vital Farms when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.84% of users gave Oatly Group an outperform vote while only 38.89% of users gave Vital Farms an outperform vote.
Oatly Group currently has a consensus target price of $2.11, indicating a potential upside of 69.14%. Vital Farms has a consensus target price of $34.40, indicating a potential downside of 8.61%. Given Vital Farms' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Oatly Group is more favorable than Vital Farms.
Vital Farms has a net margin of 7.48% compared to Vital Farms' net margin of -49.19%. Oatly Group's return on equity of 19.58% beat Vital Farms' return on equity.
Summary
Vital Farms beats Oatly Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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