CIMG (NASDAQ:IMG – Get Free Report) and Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ – Get Free Report) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Risk & Volatility
CIMG has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utz Brands has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares CIMG and Utz Brands’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| CIMG | N/A | -23.59% | -15.90% |
| Utz Brands | -2.00% | 8.97% | 4.32% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares CIMG and Utz Brands”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| CIMG | $10.30 million | 0.21 | -$4.88 million | ($4.00) | -0.06 |
| Utz Brands | $1.44 billion | 1.43 | $800,000.00 | ($0.33) | -43.29 |
Utz Brands has higher revenue and earnings than CIMG. Utz Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CIMG, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
23.4% of CIMG shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Utz Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of CIMG shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Utz Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for CIMG and Utz Brands, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| CIMG | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Utz Brands | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
Utz Brands has a consensus target price of $13.39, suggesting a potential downside of 6.29%. Given Utz Brands’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Utz Brands is more favorable than CIMG.
Summary
Utz Brands beats CIMG on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About CIMG
CIMG Inc. is a digital marketing, sales and distribution company for various consumer products with focuses on food and beverages. CIMG Inc., formerly known as NUZEE INC., is based in BEIJING.
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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