STKL vs. UVV, NUS, HAIN, LVRO, BGS, EWCZ, ARKO, OTLY, BIOX, and UNFI Should you be buying SunOpta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunOpta include Universal (UVV), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Lavoro (LVRO), B&G Foods (BGS), European Wax Center (EWCZ), Arko (ARKO), Oatly Group (OTLY), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), and United Natural Foods (UNFI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Universal (NYSE:UVV ) and SunOpta (NASDAQ:STKL ) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Universal has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SunOpta has a beta of 1.73, meaning that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Universal has higher revenue and earnings than SunOpta. SunOpta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Universal has a net margin of 4.98% compared to Universal's net margin of -24.00%. SunOpta's return on equity of 7.46% beat Universal's return on equity.
81.0% of Universal shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.4% of SunOpta shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Universal shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of SunOpta 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.
SunOpta received 355 more outperform votes than Universal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.93% of users gave SunOpta an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Universal an outperform vote.
SunOpta has a consensus target price of $9.40, indicating a potential upside of 69.68%. Given Universal's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SunOpta is more favorable than Universal.
In the previous week, Universal had 2 more articles in the media than SunOpta. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Universal and 3 mentions for SunOpta. Universal's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat SunOpta's score of 0.03 indicating that SunOpta is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary SunOpta beats Universal on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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