Contrasting BranchOut Food (NASDAQ:BOF) & Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ)

BranchOut Food (NASDAQ:BOF) and Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for BranchOut Food and Utz Brands, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BranchOut Food	1	0	1	0	2.00
Utz Brands	1	9	1	0	2.00

BranchOut Food currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 172.73%. Utz Brands has a consensus target price of $13.39, indicating a potential downside of 6.42%. Given BranchOut Food’s higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe BranchOut Food is more favorable than Utz Brands.

Profitability

This table compares BranchOut Food and Utz Brands’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BranchOut Food	-56.77%	-153.95%	-51.07%
Utz Brands	-2.00%	8.97%	4.32%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

2.6% of BranchOut Food shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 21.5% of BranchOut Food shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Utz Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares BranchOut Food and Utz Brands”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BranchOut Food	$13.73 million	2.61	-$6.12 million	($0.60)	-3.67
Utz Brands	$1.44 billion	1.43	$800,000.00	($0.33)	-43.35

Utz Brands has higher revenue and earnings than BranchOut Food. Utz Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BranchOut Food, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

BranchOut Food has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utz Brands has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Utz Brands beats BranchOut Food on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BranchOut Food

BranchOut Food Inc. develops, markets, sells, and distributes plant-based dehydrated fruit and vegetable snacks, and powders in the United States. The company offers dehydrated fruit and vegetable-based snacks, including avocado chips, chewy banana bites, pineapple chips, brussels sprout crisps, and bell pepper crisps; avocado, banana, and blueberry powders; and industrial ingredients, such as bulk avocado powder, dried avocado pieces, and other fruit powders/pieces. It also provides chocolate covered fruit items and private label products for retailers. The company was formerly known as AvoLov, LLC and changed its name to BranchOut Food Inc. in November 2021. BranchOut Food Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Bend, Oregon.

About Utz Brands

Utz Brands, Inc. engages in manufacture, marketing, and distribution of snack foods. It offers a range of salty snacks, including salty snacks, including potato chips, tortilla chips, pretzels, cheese snacks, pork skins, veggie snacks, pub/party mixes, tortilla chips, salsa and dips, ready-to-eat popcorn, and other snacks under the Utz, Zapp’s, ON THE BORDER, Golden Flake, Boulder Canyon, Hawaiian, TORTIYAHS!, etc. The company sells its products to wholesale and other distributors, grocery stores, convenience and drug stores, discount stores, mass merchandisers, membership club stores, hard discounters, and specialty and e-commerce retailers. Utz Brands, Inc. was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Hanover, Pennsylvania.