MATW vs. AVO, NAPA, WEST, SCHL, OLPX, LESL, BIOX, OTLY, BRCC, and HAIN
Should you be buying Matthews International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Matthews International include Mission Produce (AVO), Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA), Westrock Coffee (WEST), Scholastic (SCHL), Olaplex (OLPX), Leslie's (LESL), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Oatly Group (OTLY), BRC (BRCC), and The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Matthews International (NASDAQ:MATW) and Mission Produce (NASDAQ:AVO) 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 media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and dividends.
83.1% of Matthews International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.6% of Mission Produce shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Matthews International shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.6% of Mission Produce shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Matthews International currently has a consensus target price of $59.00, suggesting a potential upside of 101.92%. Mission Produce has a consensus target price of $12.38, suggesting a potential downside of 3.85%. Given Matthews International's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Matthews International is more favorable than Mission Produce.
Matthews International has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mission Produce has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Mission Produce had 10 more articles in the media than Matthews International. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Mission Produce and 4 mentions for Matthews International. Mission Produce's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Matthews International's score of 0.49 indicating that Mission Produce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Matthews International received 246 more outperform votes than Mission Produce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.44% of users gave Matthews International an outperform vote while only 41.03% of users gave Mission Produce an outperform vote.
Matthews International has higher revenue and earnings than Mission Produce. Matthews International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mission Produce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Matthews International has a net margin of 1.77% compared to Mission Produce's net margin of 0.60%. Matthews International's return on equity of 16.75% beat Mission Produce's return on equity.
Summary
Matthews International beats Mission Produce on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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