LMNR vs. SANW, FDP, ALCO, ADM, BG, INGR, DAR, AGRO, LND, and VFF
Should you be buying Limoneira stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Limoneira include S&W Seed (SANW), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), Alico (ALCO), Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Bunge Global (BG), Ingredion (INGR), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Adecoagro (AGRO), BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND), and Village Farms International (VFF).
S&W Seed (NASDAQ:SANW) and Limoneira (NASDAQ:LMNR) 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 valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.
Limoneira has a consensus target price of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.89%. Given S&W Seed's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Limoneira is more favorable than S&W Seed.
S&W Seed has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Limoneira. Limoneira is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S&W Seed, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
S&W Seed has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Limoneira has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Limoneira has a net margin of -5.40% compared to Limoneira's net margin of -36.60%. S&W Seed's return on equity of -1.16% beat Limoneira's return on equity.
In the previous week, Limoneira had 1 more articles in the media than S&W Seed. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Limoneira and 2 mentions for S&W Seed. Limoneira's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat S&W Seed's score of 0.82 indicating that S&W Seed is being referred to more favorably in the media.
S&W Seed received 59 more outperform votes than Limoneira when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.42% of users gave Limoneira an outperform vote while only 61.05% of users gave S&W Seed an outperform vote.
61.7% of S&W Seed shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of Limoneira shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of S&W Seed shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Limoneira shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Limoneira beats S&W Seed on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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