AVO vs. CVGW, MATW, NAPA, WEST, BIOX, SCHL, OLPX, OTLY, LESL, and BRCC
Should you be buying Mission Produce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mission Produce include Calavo Growers (CVGW), Matthews International (MATW), Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA), Westrock Coffee (WEST), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Scholastic (SCHL), Olaplex (OLPX), Oatly Group (OTLY), Leslie's (LESL), and BRC (BRCC). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) and Mission Produce (NASDAQ:AVO) 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 media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
81.3% of Calavo Growers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.6% of Mission Produce shares are held by institutional investors. 7.1% of Calavo Growers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 41.6% of Mission Produce shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Calavo Growers currently has a consensus target price of $38.50, indicating a potential upside of 39.54%. Mission Produce has a consensus target price of $12.38, indicating a potential downside of 4.00%. Given Mission Produce's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Calavo Growers is more favorable than Mission Produce.
Mission Produce has a net margin of 0.60% compared to Mission Produce's net margin of -1.32%. Calavo Growers' return on equity of 3.98% beat Mission Produce's return on equity.
In the previous week, Mission Produce had 14 more articles in the media than Calavo Growers. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Mission Produce and 0 mentions for Calavo Growers. Mission Produce's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Calavo Growers' score of 0.51 indicating that Calavo Growers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mission Produce has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mission Produce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Calavo Growers received 296 more outperform votes than Mission Produce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.30% of users gave Calavo Growers an outperform vote while only 41.03% of users gave Mission Produce an outperform vote.
Calavo Growers has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mission Produce has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mission Produce beats Calavo Growers on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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