Reviewing Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT) & Dole (NYSE:DOLE)

Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT) and Dole (NYSE:DOLE) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Australian Oilseeds and Dole, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Australian Oilseeds	1	0	0	0	1.00
Dole	0	3	0	0	2.00

Dole has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.14%. Given Dole’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Dole is more favorable than Australian Oilseeds.

Profitability

This table compares Australian Oilseeds and Dole’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Australian Oilseeds	N/A	N/A	N/A
Dole	0.63%	7.06%	2.33%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Australian Oilseeds and Dole”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Australian Oilseeds	$43.82 million	0.29	-$840,000.00	($0.04)	-11.50
Dole	$9.49 billion	0.13	$51.32 million	$0.62	21.48

Dole has higher revenue and earnings than Australian Oilseeds. Australian Oilseeds is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dole, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk and Volatility

Australian Oilseeds has a beta of 0.27, meaning that its stock price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dole has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

12.9% of Australian Oilseeds shares are owned by institutional investors. 69.1% of Australian Oilseeds shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.8% of Dole shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Dole beats Australian Oilseeds on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Dole

Dole Food Company, Inc. (Dole) is a producer, marketer and distributor of fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. The Company is a producer of bananas and pineapples, and packaged fruit products, packaged salads and fresh-packed vegetables. The Company has three business segments: fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and packaged foods. The fresh fruit segment contains operating divisions that produce and market fresh fruit to wholesale, retail and institutional customers worldwide. The fresh vegetables segment produces and markets fresh-packed and value-added vegetables and salads to wholesale, retail and institutional customers, primarily in North America and Europe. The packaged foods segment contains several operating divisions that produce and market packaged foods, including fruit, juices, frozen fruit and healthy snack foods. In November 2013, Dole Food Company, Inc announced that an investor group acquired the remaining 60.43% interest in the Company.