Contrasting Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) and Above Food Ingredients (NASDAQ:ABVE)

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Utz Brands	-0.58%	8.61%	4.17%
Above Food Ingredients	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Utz Brands and Above Food Ingredients, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Utz Brands	1	3	4	0	2.38
Above Food Ingredients	0	0	0	0	0.00

Utz Brands presently has a consensus target price of $12.06, indicating a potential upside of 64.13%. Given Utz Brands’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Utz Brands is more favorable than Above Food Ingredients.

Risk & Volatility

Utz Brands has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Above Food Ingredients has a beta of -0.26, indicating that its stock price is 126% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

96.0% of Utz Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.8% of Above Food Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.7% of Utz Brands shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 64.5% of Above Food Ingredients shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Utz Brands and Above Food Ingredients”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Utz Brands	$1.44 billion	0.73	$800,000.00	($0.10)	-73.45
Above Food Ingredients	$273.06 million	0.09	-$39.49 million	N/A	N/A

Utz Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Above Food Ingredients.

Summary

Utz Brands beats Above Food Ingredients on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.