VITL vs. FRPT, BRFS, NOMD, UTZ, KLG, OTLY, AFRI, MAMA, BYND, and BRLS
Should you be buying Vital Farms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vital Farms include Freshpet (FRPT), BRF (BRFS), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Utz Brands (UTZ), WK Kellogg (KLG), Oatly Group (OTLY), Forafric Global (AFRI), Mama's Creations (MAMA), Beyond Meat (BYND), and Borealis Foods (BRLS). These companies are all part of the "food products" industry.
Vital Farms vs.
Freshpet (NASDAQ:FRPT) and Vital Farms (NASDAQ:VITL) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
In the previous week, Vital Farms had 7 more articles in the media than Freshpet. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Vital Farms and 6 mentions for Freshpet. Freshpet's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Vital Farms' score of 0.70 indicating that Freshpet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
98.6% of Vital Farms shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of Freshpet shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.6% of Vital Farms shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Freshpet currently has a consensus price target of $163.36, indicating a potential upside of 4.08%. Vital Farms has a consensus price target of $41.67, indicating a potential downside of 7.43%. Given Freshpet's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Freshpet is more favorable than Vital Farms.
Vital Farms has a net margin of 8.68% compared to Freshpet's net margin of 4.75%. Vital Farms' return on equity of 22.29% beat Freshpet's return on equity.
Freshpet has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vital Farms has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Vital Farms has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Freshpet. Vital Farms is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freshpet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Freshpet received 468 more outperform votes than Vital Farms when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.90% of users gave Freshpet an outperform vote while only 43.55% of users gave Vital Farms an outperform vote.
Summary
Freshpet beats Vital Farms on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:VITL) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
