MPE vs. TOT, AEP, OGN, CAM, PAL, RE, DKL, AAAP, EVST, and AGTA
Should you be buying M.P. Evans Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of M.P. Evans Group include Total Produce (TOT), Anglo-Eastern Plantations (AEP), Origin Enterprises (OGN), Camellia (CAM), Equatorial Palm Oil plc (PAL.L) (PAL), R.E.A. (RE), Dekel Agri-Vision (DKL), Anglo African Agriculture (AAAP), Everest Global (EVST), and Agriterra (AGTA). These companies are all part of the "farm products" industry.
M.P. Evans Group vs. Its Competitors
Total Produce (LON:TOT) and M.P. Evans Group (LON:MPE) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings and risk.
M.P. Evans Group has a net margin of 19.60% compared to Total Produce's net margin of 0.00%. M.P. Evans Group's return on equity of 13.59% beat Total Produce's return on equity.
M.P. Evans Group has a consensus target price of GBX 1,375, suggesting a potential upside of 5.36%. Given M.P. Evans Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe M.P. Evans Group is more favorable than Total Produce.
Total Produce pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 per share. M.P. Evans Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Total Produce pays out 0.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. M.P. Evans Group pays out 48.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
27.7% of M.P. Evans Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 48.6% of M.P. Evans Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
M.P. Evans Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Total Produce. Total Produce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than M.P. Evans Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, M.P. Evans Group had 3 more articles in the media than Total Produce. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for M.P. Evans Group and 0 mentions for Total Produce. M.P. Evans Group's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Total Produce's score of 0.00 indicating that M.P. Evans Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
M.P. Evans Group beats Total Produce on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MPE) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
