VITL vs. BRFS, NOMD, UTZ, KLG, WYHG, OTLY, MAMA, BYND, AFRI, and BRLS
Should you be buying Vital Farms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vital Farms include BRF (BRFS), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Utz Brands (UTZ), WK Kellogg (KLG), Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Limited (Uplisting) (WYHG), Oatly Group (OTLY), Mama's Creations (MAMA), Beyond Meat (BYND), Forafric Global (AFRI), and Borealis Foods (BRLS). These companies are all part of the "food products" industry.
Vital Farms vs.
BRF (NYSE:BRFS) and Vital Farms (NASDAQ:VITL) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
Vital Farms has a net margin of 8.68% compared to BRF's net margin of 6.52%. Vital Farms' return on equity of 22.29% beat BRF's return on equity.
BRF currently has a consensus target price of $10.70, suggesting a potential upside of 218.93%. Vital Farms has a consensus target price of $44.57, suggesting a potential upside of 27.71%. Given BRF's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe BRF is more favorable than Vital Farms.
4.8% of BRF shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.6% of Vital Farms shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of BRF shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 27.6% of Vital Farms shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BRF has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vital Farms has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BRF received 300 more outperform votes than Vital Farms when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.63% of users gave BRF an outperform vote while only 44.62% of users gave Vital Farms an outperform vote.
Vital Farms has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BRF. BRF is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vital Farms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Vital Farms had 8 more articles in the media than BRF. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Vital Farms and 3 mentions for BRF. Vital Farms' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat BRF's score of -0.16 indicating that Vital Farms is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Vital Farms beats BRF on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:VITL) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
