CVGW vs. JBSS, BGS, SENEA, HAIN, LWAY, FARM, MDLZ, GIS, HSY, and K
Should you be buying Calavo Growers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Calavo Growers include John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), B&G Foods (BGS), Seneca Foods (SENEA), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Farmer Bros. (FARM), Mondelez International (MDLZ), General Mills (GIS), Hershey (HSY), and Kellanova (K). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
Calavo Growers vs.
Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) and John B. Sanfilippo & Son (NASDAQ:JBSS) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
John B. Sanfilippo & Son has higher revenue and earnings than Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than John B. Sanfilippo & Son, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Calavo Growers currently has a consensus target price of $35.00, suggesting a potential upside of 41.76%. Given Calavo Growers' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Calavo Growers is more favorable than John B. Sanfilippo & Son.
Calavo Growers pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. John B. Sanfilippo & Son pays an annual dividend of $0.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Calavo Growers pays out -160.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. John B. Sanfilippo & Son pays out 18.3% 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. Calavo Growers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
John B. Sanfilippo & Son has a net margin of 4.90% compared to Calavo Growers' net margin of -1.21%. John B. Sanfilippo & Son's return on equity of 17.21% beat Calavo Growers' return on equity.
In the previous week, Calavo Growers had 13 more articles in the media than John B. Sanfilippo & Son. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Calavo Growers and 4 mentions for John B. Sanfilippo & Son. John B. Sanfilippo & Son's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Calavo Growers' score of 0.11 indicating that John B. Sanfilippo & Son is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Calavo Growers received 155 more outperform votes than John B. Sanfilippo & Son when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.71% of users gave John B. Sanfilippo & Son an outperform vote while only 61.01% of users gave Calavo Growers an outperform vote.
81.3% of Calavo Growers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of John B. Sanfilippo & Son shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.1% of Calavo Growers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of John B. Sanfilippo & Son shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Calavo Growers has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John B. Sanfilippo & Son has a beta of 0.14, indicating that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
John B. Sanfilippo & Son beats Calavo Growers on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CVGW) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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