Head to Head Survey: Oatly Group (NASDAQ:OTLY) versus Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ)

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

68.2% of Oatly Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Utz Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Oatly Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of Utz Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Oatly Group and Utz Brands, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Oatly Group	0	2	3	0	2.60
Utz Brands	0	3	8	0	2.73

Oatly Group presently has a consensus target price of $1.45, indicating a potential upside of 75.86%. Utz Brands has a consensus target price of $20.36, indicating a potential upside of 16.70%. Given Oatly Group’s higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Oatly Group is more favorable than Utz Brands.

Volatility & Risk

Oatly Group has a beta of 2.1, indicating that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utz Brands has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Oatly Group and Utz Brands”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Oatly Group	$783.35 million	0.63	-$416.87 million	($0.70)	-1.18
Utz Brands	$1.43 billion	1.72	-$24.94 million	($0.25)	-69.80

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

Profitability

This table compares Oatly Group and Utz Brands’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Oatly Group	-41.71%	-35.74%	-11.76%
Utz Brands	0.29%	6.79%	3.53%

Summary

Utz Brands beats Oatly Group on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Oatly Group

Oatly Group AB, an oatmilk company, provides a range of plant-based dairy products made from oats in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. It offers Barista edition oatmilk, oatgurts, frozen desserts, ice-creams, and yogurts; cooking products, including cooking cream, in regular and organic, Crème Fraiche, whipping cream, vanilla custard, and spreads in a variety of flavors; and ready-to-go drinks. The company was formerly known as Havre Global AB and changed its name to Oatly Group AB in March 2021. Oatly Group AB was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Malmö, Sweden.

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.