Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT) & Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) Head to Head Survey

Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT) and Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

13.0% of Australian Oilseeds shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Utz Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 69.1% of Australian Oilseeds shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Utz Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Australian Oilseeds and Utz Brands’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Australian Oilseeds	N/A	N/A	N/A
Utz Brands	-0.58%	8.61%	4.17%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Australian Oilseeds and Utz Brands”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Australian Oilseeds	$27.01 million	0.62	-$840,000.00	($0.04)	-15.00
Utz Brands	$1.44 billion	0.72	$800,000.00	($0.10)	-72.49

Utz Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Australian Oilseeds. Utz Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Australian Oilseeds, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

Australian Oilseeds has a beta of 0.12, meaning that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utz Brands has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Australian Oilseeds and Utz Brands, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Australian Oilseeds	1	0	0	0	1.00
Utz Brands	1	3	4	0	2.38

Utz Brands has a consensus target price of $12.06, indicating a potential upside of 66.31%. Given Utz Brands’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Utz Brands is more favorable than Australian Oilseeds.

Summary

Utz Brands beats Australian Oilseeds on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Australian Oilseeds

Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale oil seeds through its subsidiaries. It focuses on acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction, and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all the assets of, entering contractual arrangements with, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was founded on December 29, 2022 and is headquartered in Cootamundra, Australia.

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.