CVGW vs. BV, THS, JBSS, BGS, HAIN, SENEA, LWAY, FARM, SITE, and MDLZ
Should you be buying Calavo Growers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Calavo Growers include BrightView (BV), TreeHouse Foods (THS), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), B&G Foods (BGS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Farmer Bros. (FARM), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), and Mondelez International (MDLZ).
Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) and BrightView (NYSE:BV) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
81.3% of Calavo Growers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of BrightView shares are held by institutional investors. 7.1% of Calavo Growers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of BrightView shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BrightView has a net margin of 1.80% compared to Calavo Growers' net margin of -1.32%. BrightView's return on equity of 5.78% beat Calavo Growers' return on equity.
Calavo Growers presently has a consensus price target of $38.50, suggesting a potential upside of 42.75%. BrightView has a consensus price target of $11.75, suggesting a potential downside of 14.92%. Given Calavo Growers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Calavo Growers is more favorable than BrightView.
Calavo Growers has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BrightView has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Calavo Growers received 305 more outperform votes than BrightView when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.30% of users gave Calavo Growers an outperform vote while only 24.14% of users gave BrightView an outperform vote.
BrightView has higher revenue and earnings than Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BrightView, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BrightView had 7 more articles in the media than Calavo Growers. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for BrightView and 2 mentions for Calavo Growers. Calavo Growers' average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat BrightView's score of 0.37 indicating that Calavo Growers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
BrightView beats Calavo Growers on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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