Beyond Meat (BYND) Competitors

Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND) and Oatly Group (NASDAQ:OTLY) 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 media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.

Do analysts recommend BYND or OTLY?

Beyond Meat currently has a consensus price target of $5.50, indicating a potential upside of 34.80%. Oatly Group has a consensus price target of $1.27, indicating a potential upside of 83.04%. Given Oatly Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Oatly Group is more favorable than Beyond Meat.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Beyond Meat	3 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.50
Oatly Group	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80

Is BYND or OTLY more profitable?

Oatly Group has a net margin of -50.33% compared to Beyond Meat's net margin of -83.63%. Beyond Meat's return on equity of 0.00% beat Oatly Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Beyond Meat	-83.63%	N/A	-22.99%
Oatly Group	-50.33%	-76.54%	-20.75%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, BYND or OTLY?

Beyond Meat has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Oatly Group. Oatly Group 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	0.77	-$338.14M	-$4.18	-0.98
Oatly Group	$783.35M	0.53	-$416.87M	-$0.69	-1.00

Which has more volatility & risk, BYND or OTLY?

Beyond Meat has a beta of 2.26, indicating that its share price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oatly Group has a beta of 1.97, indicating that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to BYND or OTLY?

In the previous week, Beyond Meat had 2 more articles in the media than Oatly Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Beyond Meat and 1 mentions for Oatly Group. Beyond Meat's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Oatly Group's score of 0.00 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	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Oatly Group	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do institutionals & insiders believe in BYND or OTLY?

52.5% of Beyond Meat shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.2% of Oatly Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.6% of Beyond Meat shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Oatly Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer BYND or OTLY?

Beyond Meat received 138 more outperform votes than Oatly Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 45.02% of users gave Beyond Meat an outperform vote while only 42.57% of users gave Oatly Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Beyond Meat	Outperform Votes 181 45.02%	Underperform Votes 221 54.98%
Oatly Group	Outperform Votes 43 42.57%	Underperform Votes 58 57.43%

Summary

Beyond Meat beats Oatly Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.