Seneca Foods (NASDAQ:SENEB – Get Free Report) is one of 329 public companies in the “Food Products” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Seneca Foods to related companies based on the strength of its profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends and risk.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Seneca Foods and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Seneca Foods | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Seneca Foods Competitors | 2333 | 8180 | 8253 | 394 | 2.35 |
As a group, “Food Products” companies have a potential upside of 13.08%. Given Seneca Foods’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Seneca Foods has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Seneca Foods | $1.77 billion | N/A | 62.99 |
| Seneca Foods Competitors | $7.40 billion | $706.66 million | -322.04 |
Seneca Foods’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Seneca Foods. Seneca Foods is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
3.4% of Seneca Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Seneca Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of shares of all “Food Products” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Seneca Foods and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Seneca Foods | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Seneca Foods Competitors | -15.28% | -138.66% | -4.07% |
Summary
Seneca Foods competitors beat Seneca Foods on 7 of the 11 factors compared.
About Seneca Foods
Seneca Foods Corporation provides packaged fruits and vegetables in the United States and internationally. The company offers canned, frozen, and bottled produce; and snack chips and other food products under the private label, as well as under various national and regional brands that the company owns or licenses, including Seneca, Libby's, Aunt Nellie's, READ, Green Valley, Paradise, Seneca Farms, and CherryMan. It also packs Green Giant, Le Sueur, and other brands of canned vegetables, as well as select Green Giant frozen vegetables for B&G Foods North America under a contract packing agreement. In addition, the company engages in the sale of cans and ends, as well as trucking and aircraft operations. It provides its products to grocery outlets, including supermarkets, mass merchandisers, limited assortment stores, club stores, and dollar stores; and food service distributors, industrial markets, other food packagers, and export customers in 90 countries, as well as federal, state, and local governments for school and other feeding programs. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Marion, New York.
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