Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ – Get Free Report) and Adecoagro (NYSE:AGRO – Get Free Report) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares Utz Brands and Adecoagro’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Utz Brands | -2.00% | 8.97% | 4.32% |
| Adecoagro | 3.03% | -0.38% | -0.14% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings for Utz Brands and Adecoagro, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Utz Brands | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Adecoagro | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1.88 |
Dividends
Utz Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Adecoagro pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Utz Brands pays out -75.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Adecoagro pays out 72.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Utz Brands has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Adecoagro has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Utz Brands and Adecoagro”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Utz Brands | $1.44 billion | 1.43 | $800,000.00 | ($0.33) | -43.26 |
| Adecoagro | $1.43 billion | 1.08 | -$8.35 million | $0.33 | 32.82 |
Utz Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Adecoagro. Utz Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adecoagro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
96.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.3% of Adecoagro shares are held by institutional investors. 12.7% of Utz Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Risk and Volatility
Utz Brands has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adecoagro has a beta of -0.02, indicating that its share price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Utz Brands beats Adecoagro on 10 of the 15 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 Adecoagro
Adecoagro S.A. operates as an agro-industrial company in South America. The company mainly operates through three segments: Farming; Sugar, Ethanol and Energy; and Land Transformation. It engages in farming crops, rice and other agricultural products, dairy operations, and land transformation activities, as well as sugar, ethanol, and energy production activities. The company is involved in the planting, harvesting, and sale of grains, oilseeds, and fibers, including wheat, corn, soybeans, peanuts, cotton, sunflowers, and others; provision of grain warehousing/conditioning, handling, and drying services to third parties; and purchase and sale of crops produced by third parties. It also plants, harvests, processes, and markets rice; and produces and sells raw milk, UHT, cheese, and powder milk. In addition, the company engages in the cultivating and transforming of sugarcane into ethanol, sugar, and electricity. Further, it is involved in the identification and acquisition of underdeveloped and undermanaged farmland, and the realization of value through the strategic disposition of assets. Adecoagro S.A. was founded in 2002 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
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