Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE – Get Free Report) and Grove Collaborative (NYSE:GROV – Get Free Report) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Risk and Volatility
Andersons has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grove Collaborative has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
87.1% of Andersons shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Grove Collaborative shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Andersons shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.3% of Grove Collaborative shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Andersons | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Grove Collaborative | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
Andersons currently has a consensus price target of $95.00, suggesting a potential upside of 33.20%. Grove Collaborative has a consensus price target of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 89.57%. Given Grove Collaborative’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Grove Collaborative is more favorable than Andersons.
Profitability
This table compares Andersons and Grove Collaborative’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Andersons | 1.62% | 16.23% | 5.84% |
| Grove Collaborative | -4.07% | N/A | -12.35% |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Andersons and Grove Collaborative”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Andersons | $11.01 billion | 0.22 | $95.71 million | $5.18 | 13.77 |
| Grove Collaborative | $173.72 million | 0.26 | -$11.72 million | ($0.19) | -5.55 |
Andersons has higher revenue and earnings than Grove Collaborative. Grove Collaborative is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Andersons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Andersons beats Grove Collaborative on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Andersons
The Andersons, Inc. operates in trade, renewables, and nutrient and industrial sectors in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Egypt, Switzerland, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Trade, Renewables, and Nutrient & Industrial. The company’s Trade segment operates grain elevators; stores commodities; and provides grain marketing, risk management, and origination services, as well as sells commodities, such as corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, ethanol, and corn oil. This segment also engages in the commodity merchandising business, as well as offers logistics for physical commodities, such as whole grains, grain products, feed ingredients, domestic fuel products, and other agricultural commodities. Its Renewables segment produces, purchases, and sells ethanol, and co-products, as well as offers facility operations, risk management, and marketing services to the ethanol plants it invests in and operates. The company’s Nutrient & Industrial segment manufactures, distributes, and retails agricultural and related plant nutrients, liquid industrial products, corncob-based products, and pelleted lime and gypsum products, as well as turf fertilizer, pesticide, and herbicide products; and crop nutrients, crop protection chemicals, and seed products, as well as provides application and agronomic services to commercial and family farmers. In addition, this segment produces corncob-based products for laboratory animal bedding and private-label cat litter, as well as absorbents, blast cleaners, carriers, and polishers; professional lawn care products for golf course and turf care markets; fertilizer and weed, and pest control products; dry and liquid agricultural nutrients, pelleted lime, gypsum, and soil amendments; and micronutrients, as well as industrial products comprising nitrogen reagents, calcium nitrate, deicers, and dust abatement products. The Andersons, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is based in Maumee, Ohio.
About Grove Collaborative
Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc. operates as a plastic neutral consumer products retailer in the United States. It offers household, personal care, beauty, and other consumer products through retail channels, third parties, direct-to-consumer platform, and mobile applications, as well as online store. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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