UTZ vs. FRPT, BRFS, NOMD, KLG, VITL, WYHG, OTLY, MAMA, BYND, and AFRI
Should you be buying Utz Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Utz Brands include Freshpet (FRPT), BRF (BRFS), Nomad Foods (NOMD), WK Kellogg (KLG), Vital Farms (VITL), Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Limited (Uplisting) (WYHG), Oatly Group (OTLY), Mama's Creations (MAMA), Beyond Meat (BYND), and Forafric Global (AFRI). These companies are all part of the "food products" industry.
Utz Brands vs.
Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) and Freshpet (NASDAQ:FRPT) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Freshpet received 438 more outperform votes than Utz Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.83% of users gave Utz Brands an outperform vote while only 62.96% of users gave Freshpet an outperform vote.
96.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 17.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Freshpet shares are held by 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.
Utz Brands presently has a consensus price target of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 39.81%. Freshpet has a consensus price target of $161.93, suggesting a potential upside of 65.98%. Given Freshpet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Freshpet is more favorable than Utz Brands.
Utz Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Freshpet. Utz Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freshpet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Freshpet has a net margin of 4.75% compared to Utz Brands' net margin of -0.99%. Utz Brands' return on equity of 7.25% beat Freshpet's return on equity.
Utz Brands has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freshpet has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Freshpet had 6 more articles in the media than Utz Brands. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Freshpet and 25 mentions for Utz Brands. Utz Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Freshpet's score of 0.38 indicating that Utz Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Freshpet beats Utz Brands on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:UTZ) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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