BranchOut Food (NASDAQ:BOF) versus Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) Financial Survey

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

Profitability

This table compares Utz Brands and BranchOut Food’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Utz Brands	-2.00%	8.97%	4.32%
BranchOut Food	-56.77%	-153.95%	-51.07%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

96.0% of Utz Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.6% of BranchOut Food shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.7% of Utz Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.5% of BranchOut Food shares are owned by company 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.

Volatility and Risk

Utz Brands has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BranchOut Food has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Utz Brands and BranchOut Food, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Utz Brands	1	9	1	0	2.00
BranchOut Food	1	0	1	0	2.00

Utz Brands currently has a consensus price target of $13.39, suggesting a potential downside of 6.42%. BranchOut Food has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 73.41%. Given BranchOut Food’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BranchOut Food is more favorable than Utz Brands.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Utz Brands and BranchOut Food”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Utz Brands	$1.45 billion	1.42	$800,000.00	($0.33)	-43.35
BranchOut Food	$14.34 million	3.92	-$6.12 million	($0.60)	-5.77

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

Summary

Utz Brands beats BranchOut Food on 8 of the 12 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 BranchOut Food

BranchOut Food Inc. develops, markets, sells, and distributes plant-based dehydrated fruit and vegetable snacks, and powders in the United States. The company offers dehydrated fruit and vegetable-based snacks, including avocado chips, chewy banana bites, pineapple chips, brussels sprout crisps, and bell pepper crisps; avocado, banana, and blueberry powders; and industrial ingredients, such as bulk avocado powder, dried avocado pieces, and other fruit powders/pieces. It also provides chocolate covered fruit items and private label products for retailers. The company was formerly known as AvoLov, LLC and changed its name to BranchOut Food Inc. in November 2021. BranchOut Food Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Bend, Oregon.