LOCL vs. SEED, SANW, SISI, RKDA, AAGR, YTEN, EDBL, CTVA, FDP, and AGRO
Should you be buying Local Bounti stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Local Bounti include Origin Agritech (SEED), S&W Seed (SANW), Shineco (SISI), Arcadia Biosciences (RKDA), African Agriculture (AAGR), Yield10 Bioscience (YTEN), Edible Garden (EDBL), Corteva (CTVA), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), and Adecoagro (AGRO). These companies are all part of the "agricultural production - crops" industry.
Origin Agritech (NASDAQ:SEED) and Local Bounti (NYSE:LOCL) 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 dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Origin Agritech has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Local Bounti.
1.7% of Origin Agritech shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.0% of Local Bounti shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.1% of Local Bounti shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Origin Agritech had 1 more articles in the media than Local Bounti. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Origin Agritech and 0 mentions for Local Bounti. Local Bounti's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Origin Agritech's score of 0.00 indicating that Origin Agritech is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Origin Agritech received 209 more outperform votes than Local Bounti when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.15% of users gave Origin Agritech an outperform vote while only 31.58% of users gave Local Bounti an outperform vote.
Local Bounti has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 239.62%. Given Origin Agritech's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Local Bounti is more favorable than Origin Agritech.
Origin Agritech has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Origin Agritech's net margin of -425.89%. Local Bounti's return on equity of 0.00% beat Origin Agritech's return on equity.
Origin Agritech has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Local Bounti has a beta of 2.56, suggesting that its share price is 156% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Origin Agritech beats Local Bounti on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding LOCL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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