AVO vs. BV, CVGW, CEAD, AGFY, IVP, NWL, JJSF, SAM, TBBB, and WDFC
Should you be buying Mission Produce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mission Produce include BrightView (BV), Calavo Growers (CVGW), CEA Industries (CEAD), Agrify (AGFY), Inspire Veterinary Partners (IVP), Newell Brands (NWL), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Boston Beer (SAM), BBB Foods (TBBB), and WD-40 (WDFC).
BrightView (NYSE:BV) and Mission Produce (NASDAQ:AVO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
BrightView has a net margin of 1.80% compared to BrightView's net margin of 0.60%. Mission Produce's return on equity of 5.78% beat BrightView's return on equity.
BrightView has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mission Produce has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
92.4% of BrightView shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.6% of Mission Produce shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of BrightView 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BrightView presently has a consensus price target of $11.75, suggesting a potential downside of 14.92%. Mission Produce has a consensus price target of $12.38, suggesting a potential upside of 4.43%. Given BrightView's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Mission Produce is more favorable than BrightView.
Mission Produce has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BrightView. BrightView is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mission Produce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mission Produce received 9 more outperform votes than BrightView when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.03% of users gave Mission Produce an outperform vote while only 24.14% of users gave BrightView an outperform vote.
In the previous week, BrightView had 7 more articles in the media than Mission Produce. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for BrightView and 2 mentions for Mission Produce. BrightView's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Mission Produce's score of 0.51 indicating that Mission Produce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Mission Produce beats BrightView on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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