STKL vs. UVV, NUS, HAIN, LVRO, BGS, EWCZ, ARKO, OTLY, BIOX, and UNFI
Should you be buying SunOpta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunOpta include Universal (UVV), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Lavoro (LVRO), B&G Foods (BGS), European Wax Center (EWCZ), Arko (ARKO), Oatly Group (OTLY), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), and United Natural Foods (UNFI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
SunOpta (NASDAQ:STKL) and Universal (NYSE:UVV) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
SunOpta received 355 more outperform votes than Universal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.93% of users gave SunOpta an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Universal an outperform vote.
SunOpta presently has a consensus price target of $9.40, indicating a potential upside of 69.68%. Given SunOpta's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe SunOpta is more favorable than Universal.
SunOpta has a beta of 1.73, indicating that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Universal has a net margin of 4.98% compared to SunOpta's net margin of -24.00%. Universal's return on equity of 7.46% beat SunOpta's return on equity.
85.4% of SunOpta shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Universal shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.5% of SunOpta shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Universal shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, SunOpta and SunOpta both had 4 articles in the media. SunOpta's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Universal's score of 0.03 indicating that SunOpta is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Universal has higher revenue and earnings than SunOpta. SunOpta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
SunOpta beats Universal on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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