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.
Local Bounti (NYSE:LOCL) and Origin Agritech (NASDAQ:SEED) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
Origin Agritech has higher revenue and earnings than Local Bounti.
28.0% of Local Bounti shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.7% of Origin Agritech shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.1% of Local Bounti shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.4% of Origin Agritech shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Origin Agritech has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Local Bounti's net margin of -425.89%. Origin Agritech's return on equity of 0.00% beat Local Bounti's return on equity.
In the previous week, Origin Agritech had 3 more articles in the media than Local Bounti. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Origin Agritech and 0 mentions for Local Bounti. Origin Agritech's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Local Bounti's score of 0.00 indicating that Origin Agritech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Local Bounti has a beta of 2.57, indicating that its share price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Origin Agritech has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Local Bounti currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 209.28%. Given Local Bounti's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Local Bounti is more favorable than Origin Agritech.
Summary
Origin Agritech beats Local Bounti on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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