VITL vs. FRPT, BRFS, NOMD, UTZ, KLG, WYHG, OTLY, BYND, MAMA, and AFRI
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), Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Limited (Uplisting) (WYHG), Oatly Group (OTLY), Beyond Meat (BYND), Mama's Creations (MAMA), and Forafric Global (AFRI). 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 stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Freshpet has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vital Farms has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Freshpet received 468 more outperform votes than Vital Farms when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.11% of users gave Freshpet an outperform vote while only 49.30% of users gave Vital Farms an outperform vote.
Vital Farms has a net margin of 8.68% compared to Freshpet's net margin of 4.81%. Vital Farms' return on equity of 22.29% beat Freshpet's return on equity.
In the previous week, Freshpet had 4 more articles in the media than Vital Farms. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Freshpet and 9 mentions for Vital Farms. Vital Farms' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Freshpet's score of 0.86 indicating that Vital Farms is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Freshpet presently has a consensus price target of $151.67, suggesting a potential upside of 70.87%. Vital Farms has a consensus price target of $42.00, suggesting a potential upside of 33.93%. Given Freshpet's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Freshpet is more favorable than Vital Farms.
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.
98.6% of Vital Farms shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Freshpet shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.6% of Vital Farms shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Freshpet and Vital Farms tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:VITL) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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