COCO vs. BRCC, WEST, NAPA, VITL, CHEF, TLRY, VSTS, UVV, KLG, and MGPI
Should you be buying Vita Coco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vita Coco include BRC (BRCC), Westrock Coffee (WEST), Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA), Vital Farms (VITL), Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), Tilray (TLRY), Vestis (VSTS), Universal (UVV), WK Kellogg (KLG), and MGP Ingredients (MGPI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Vita Coco (NASDAQ:COCO) and BRC (NYSE:BRCC) 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 risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Vita Coco has a beta of 0.18, indicating that its stock price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BRC has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vita Coco has higher revenue and earnings than BRC. BRC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vita Coco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.5% of Vita Coco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.3% of BRC shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.2% of Vita Coco shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 73.8% of BRC shares are owned by 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, BRC had 14 more articles in the media than Vita Coco. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for BRC and 4 mentions for Vita Coco. Vita Coco's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat BRC's score of 0.79 indicating that Vita Coco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vita Coco received 11 more outperform votes than BRC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.79% of users gave Vita Coco an outperform vote while only 32.00% of users gave BRC an outperform vote.
Vita Coco has a net margin of 10.93% compared to BRC's net margin of -2.78%. Vita Coco's return on equity of 26.27% beat BRC's return on equity.
Vita Coco currently has a consensus price target of $29.67, suggesting a potential upside of 12.33%. BRC has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 38.17%. Given BRC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BRC is more favorable than Vita Coco.
Summary
Vita Coco beats BRC on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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