Reviewing Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) & Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT)

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

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Utz Brands	$1.44 billion	0.70	$800,000.00	($0.10)	-70.48
Australian Oilseeds	$41.70 million	0.41	-$840,000.00	($0.04)	-15.20

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 and Volatility

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Utz Brands and Australian Oilseeds, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

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

Utz Brands presently has a consensus price target of $12.06, indicating a potential upside of 71.05%. Given Utz Brands’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Utz Brands is more favorable than Australian Oilseeds.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

96.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.9% of Australian Oilseeds shares are held by institutional investors. 12.7% of Utz Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 69.1% of Australian Oilseeds shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

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

Summary

Utz Brands beats Australian Oilseeds on 10 of the 14 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 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.