SANW vs. LOCL, SEED, RGF, NCRA, SDOT, EDUC, XXII, PETZ, DALN, and VWE
Should you be buying S&W Seed stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&W Seed include Local Bounti (LOCL), Origin Agritech (SEED), Real Good Food (RGF), Nocera (NCRA), Sadot Group (SDOT), Educational Development (EDUC), 22nd Century Group (XXII), TDH (PETZ), DallasNews (DALN), and Vintage Wine Estates (VWE). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Local Bounti (NYSE:LOCL) and S&W Seed (NASDAQ:SANW) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
Local Bounti currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 200.00%. Given S&W Seed's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Local Bounti is more favorable than S&W Seed.
S&W Seed received 342 more outperform votes than Local Bounti when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.16% of users gave S&W Seed an outperform vote while only 31.58% of users gave Local Bounti an outperform vote.
S&W Seed has higher revenue and earnings than Local Bounti. S&W Seed is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Local Bounti, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Local Bounti has a beta of 2.57, meaning that its stock price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&W Seed has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
S&W Seed has a net margin of -36.60% compared to S&W Seed's net margin of -425.89%. Local Bounti's return on equity of -33.78% beat S&W Seed's return on equity.
28.0% of Local Bounti shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of S&W Seed shares are held by institutional investors. 38.1% of Local Bounti shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of S&W Seed shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, S&W Seed had 6 more articles in the media than Local Bounti. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for S&W Seed and 3 mentions for Local Bounti. S&W Seed's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat Local Bounti's score of 0.14 indicating that Local Bounti is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
S&W Seed beats Local Bounti on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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