Yield10 Bioscience (YTEN) Competitors

Yield10 Bioscience (NASDAQ:YTEN) and Edible Garden (NASDAQ:EDBL) 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 media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of YTEN or EDBL?

4.9% of Yield10 Bioscience shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of Edible Garden shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Yield10 Bioscience shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Edible Garden shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is YTEN or EDBL more profitable?

Yield10 Bioscience has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Edible Garden's net margin of -78.61%. Yield10 Bioscience's return on equity of 0.00% beat Edible Garden's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Yield10 Bioscience	N/A	N/A	-296.08%
Edible Garden	-78.61%	-52,263.51%	-135.27%

Do analysts prefer YTEN or EDBL?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Yield10 Bioscience	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Edible Garden	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Does the media prefer YTEN or EDBL?

In the previous week, Edible Garden had 8 more articles in the media than Yield10 Bioscience. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Edible Garden and 0 mentions for Yield10 Bioscience. Edible Garden's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Yield10 Bioscience's score of 0.00 indicating that Edible Garden is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Yield10 Bioscience	Neutral
Edible Garden	Neutral

Which has more volatility & risk, YTEN or EDBL?

Yield10 Bioscience has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edible Garden has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer YTEN or EDBL?

Yield10 Bioscience received 220 more outperform votes than Edible Garden when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.55% of users gave Yield10 Bioscience an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Edible Garden an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Yield10 Bioscience	Outperform Votes 221 60.55%	Underperform Votes 144 39.45%
Edible Garden	Outperform Votes 1 33.33%	Underperform Votes 2 66.67%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, YTEN or EDBL?

Edible Garden has higher revenue and earnings than Yield10 Bioscience. Yield10 Bioscience is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edible Garden, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Yield10 Bioscience	$60K	7.36	-$14.45M	-$26.12	-0.03
Edible Garden	$14.07M	0.01	-$10.19M	-$26.31	-0.01

Summary

Yield10 Bioscience and Edible Garden tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.