Freshpet (FRPT) Competitors

Freshpet (NASDAQ:FRPT) and BellRing Brands (NYSE:BRBR) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.

Do institutionals and insiders believe in FRPT or BRBR?

95.0% of BellRing Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Freshpet shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of BellRing Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, FRPT or BRBR?

BellRing Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Freshpet. BellRing Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freshpet, 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
Freshpet	$975.18M	4.01	-$33.61M	$0.94	85.31
BellRing Brands	$2.10B	4.61	$246.50M	$2.13	35.41

Do analysts recommend FRPT or BRBR?

Freshpet presently has a consensus target price of $144.47, suggesting a potential upside of 80.16%. BellRing Brands has a consensus target price of $79.13, suggesting a potential upside of 4.93%. Given Freshpet's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Freshpet is more favorable than BellRing Brands.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Freshpet	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	12 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80
BellRing Brands	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	12 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80

Is FRPT or BRBR more profitable?

BellRing Brands has a net margin of 13.32% compared to Freshpet's net margin of 4.81%. Freshpet's return on equity of 3.92% beat BellRing Brands' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Freshpet	4.81%	3.92%	2.60%
BellRing Brands	13.32%	-130.14%	33.35%

Which has more volatility & risk, FRPT or BRBR?

Freshpet has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BellRing Brands has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor FRPT or BRBR?

Freshpet received 370 more outperform votes than BellRing Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.84% of users gave BellRing Brands an outperform vote while only 63.22% of users gave Freshpet an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Freshpet	Outperform Votes 507 63.22%	Underperform Votes 295 36.78%
BellRing Brands	Outperform Votes 137 68.84%	Underperform Votes 62 31.16%

Does the media favor FRPT or BRBR?

In the previous week, BellRing Brands had 1 more articles in the media than Freshpet. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for BellRing Brands and 20 mentions for Freshpet. BellRing Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Freshpet's score of 0.75 indicating that BellRing Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Freshpet	11 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	2 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
BellRing Brands	15 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

BellRing Brands beats Freshpet on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.