BranchOut Food (NASDAQ:BOF – Get Free Report) and Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ – Get Free Report) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for BranchOut Food and Utz Brands, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| 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 73.41%. 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.
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BranchOut Food | $14.34 million | 3.92 | -$6.12 million | ($0.60) | -5.77 |
| Utz Brands | $1.45 billion | 1.42 | $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.
Volatility & Risk
BranchOut Food has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utz Brands has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 and 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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Utz Brands beats BranchOut Food on 8 of the 12 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.
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