Financial Analysis: Tattooed Chef (NASDAQ:TTCF) vs. Glanbia (OTCMKTS:GLAPF)

Glanbia (OTCMKTS:GLAPF) and Tattooed Chef (NASDAQ:TTCF) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares Glanbia and Tattooed Chef’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Glanbia	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tattooed Chef	-62.42%	-117.28%	-62.89%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Glanbia and Tattooed Chef, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Glanbia	0	0	1	0	3.00
Tattooed Chef	0	0	0	0	0.00

Given Tattooed Chef’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Tattooed Chef is more favorable than Glanbia.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

19.8% of Glanbia shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.6% of Tattooed Chef shares are held by institutional investors. 41.2% of Tattooed Chef 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.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Glanbia and Tattooed Chef”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Glanbia	N/A	N/A	N/A	$0.52	34.08
Tattooed Chef	$222.33 million	0.00	-$141.75 million	($1.01)	N/A

Glanbia has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tattooed Chef. Tattooed Chef is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Glanbia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Glanbia beats Tattooed Chef on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Glanbia

Glanbia plc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a nutrition company worldwide. The company offers sports nutrition and lifestyle nutrition products in various formats, such as powders, ready-to-eat bars and snacking food, and ready-to-drink beverage. It also manufactures and sells cheese, dairy, and non-dairy nutritional and functional ingredients; and vitamin and mineral premixes products. In addition, the company engages in the financing; research and development; property and land dealing; holding and management of receivables; property leasing; business services; management solutions; weight management; flavor solutions; and bioactive solutions businesses. It offers its products under the Optimum Nutrition, BSN, Isopure, Nutramino, SlimFast, think!, Amazing Grass, Body & Fit, and LevlUp brands. The company sells its products through specialty retail, online, gym, and food, drug, mass, and club channels. Glanbia plc was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Kilkenny, Ireland.

About Tattooed Chef

Tattooed Chef, Inc., a plant-based food company, produces and sells a portfolio of frozen foods. It supplies plant-based products to retailers in the United States. The company offers ready-to-cook bowls, zucchini spirals, riced cauliflower, acai and smoothie bowls, cauliflower crust pizza, wood fire crusted pizza, handheld burritos, and bars and quesadillas. Its products are available in private label and Tattooed Chef brand name in the frozen food section of retail food stores, as well as online. Tattooed Chef, Inc. is headquartered in Paramount, California. On July 2, 2023, Tattooed Chef, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.