Beyond Meat (BYND) Competitors

Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND) and B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in BYND or BGS?

52.5% of Beyond Meat shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.6% of Beyond Meat shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate BYND or BGS?

Beyond Meat presently has a consensus target price of $5.42, indicating a potential downside of 10.32%. B&G Foods has a consensus target price of $8.67, indicating a potential upside of 0.08%. Given B&G Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe B&G Foods is more favorable than Beyond Meat.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Beyond Meat	4 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.43
B&G Foods	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer BYND or BGS?

B&G Foods received 173 more outperform votes than Beyond Meat when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.13% of users gave B&G Foods an outperform vote while only 45.02% of users gave Beyond Meat an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Beyond Meat	Outperform Votes 181 45.02%	Underperform Votes 221 54.98%
B&G Foods	Outperform Votes 354 54.13%	Underperform Votes 300 45.87%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, BYND or BGS?

B&G Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Beyond Meat. B&G Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Beyond Meat, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Beyond Meat	$343.38M	1.14	-$338.14M	-$4.86	-1.24
B&G Foods	$2.06B	0.33	-$66.20M	-$1.54	-5.62

Is BYND or BGS more profitable?

B&G Foods has a net margin of -5.82% compared to Beyond Meat's net margin of -98.95%. B&G Foods' return on equity of 8.07% beat Beyond Meat's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Beyond Meat	-98.95%	N/A	-26.84%
B&G Foods	-5.82%	8.07%	1.84%

Does the media prefer BYND or BGS?

In the previous week, B&G Foods had 1 more articles in the media than Beyond Meat. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for B&G Foods and 6 mentions for Beyond Meat. Beyond Meat's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat B&G Foods' score of 0.20 indicating that Beyond Meat is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Beyond Meat	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
B&G Foods	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has more risk & volatility, BYND or BGS?

Beyond Meat has a beta of 2.28, suggesting that its share price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, B&G Foods has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

B&G Foods beats Beyond Meat on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.