Analyzing Above Food Ingredients (NASDAQ:ABVE) & Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO)

Above Food Ingredients (NASDAQ:ABVE) and Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Above Food Ingredients and Flowers Foods”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Above Food Ingredients	$294.84 million	0.02	-$39.49 million	N/A	N/A
Flowers Foods	$5.26 billion	0.31	$83.82 million	$0.35	21.63

Flowers Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Above Food Ingredients.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Above Food Ingredients and Flowers Foods, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Above Food Ingredients	0	0	0	0	0.00
Flowers Foods	2	5	0	0	1.71

Flowers Foods has a consensus target price of $9.60, suggesting a potential upside of 26.82%. Given Flowers Foods’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Flowers Foods is more favorable than Above Food Ingredients.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

28.8% of Above Food Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.5% of Flowers Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 64.5% of Above Food Ingredients shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Flowers Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Above Food Ingredients and Flowers Foods’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Above Food Ingredients	N/A	N/A	N/A
Flowers Foods	1.38%	15.98%	5.11%

Volatility & Risk

Above Food Ingredients has a beta of -0.24, meaning that its share price is 124% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowers Foods has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Flowers Foods beats Above Food Ingredients on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Above Food Ingredients

Above Food Ingredients Inc., a regenerative ingredient company, produces vertically integrated supply chain products in Canada, the United States, Mexico, China, France, Turkey, and internationally. It operates through two segments: Disruptive Agriculture and Rudimentary Ingredients, and Consumer Packaged Goods. The Disruptive Agriculture and Rudimentary Ingredients segment engages in the provisioning of discrete genetics, origination, purchasing, grading, processing, and sale of regeneratively grown grain; and origination, purchase, and sale of bespoke ingredients products. The Consumer Packaged Goods segment formulates, manufactures, sells, distributes, and markets proprietary consumer product formulations in owned brands; and focuses on manufacturing and distribution for private-labeled retail owned brands. Above Food Ingredients Inc. is based in Regina, Canada.

About Flowers Foods

Flowers Foods, Inc. produces and markets packaged bakery food products in the United States. Its principal products include fresh breads, buns, rolls, snack items, bagels, English muffins, and tortillas, as well as frozen breads and rolls under the Nature's Own, Dave's Killer Bread, Wonder, Canyon Bakehouse, Mrs. Freshley's, and Tastykake brand names. The company distributes its products through a direct-store-delivery distribution and a warehouse delivery system, as well as operates bakeries. Its customers include national and regional restaurants, institutions and foodservice distributors, and retail in-store bakeries; wholesale distributors; mass merchandisers, supermarkets, vending outlets, and convenience stores; quick-serve chains, food wholesalers, institutions, dollar stores, and vending companies; and public health care, military commissaries, and prisons, and other governmental institutions. The company was formerly known as Flowers Industries and changed its name to Flowers Foods, Inc. in 2001. Flowers Foods, Inc. was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Thomasville, Georgia.