Edible Garden (NASDAQ:EDBL – Get Free Report) and Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE:ADM – Get Free Report) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares Edible Garden and Archer Daniels Midland’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Edible Garden | -131.59% | N/A | -88.36% |
| Archer Daniels Midland | 1.34% | 7.37% | 3.15% |
Volatility & Risk
Edible Garden has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Archer Daniels Midland has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Edible Garden | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Archer Daniels Midland | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1.88 |
Edible Garden presently has a consensus price target of $1.00, indicating a potential upside of 925.64%. Archer Daniels Midland has a consensus price target of $75.33, indicating a potential downside of 6.21%. Given Edible Garden’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Edible Garden is more favorable than Archer Daniels Midland.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Edible Garden and Archer Daniels Midland”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Edible Garden | $12.81 million | 0.04 | -$17.33 million | ($109.66) | -0.00 |
| Archer Daniels Midland | $80.27 billion | 0.48 | $1.08 billion | $2.23 | 36.02 |
Archer Daniels Midland has higher revenue and earnings than Edible Garden. Edible Garden is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Archer Daniels Midland, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
13.0% of Edible Garden shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Archer Daniels Midland shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Edible Garden shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Archer Daniels Midland shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Archer Daniels Midland beats Edible Garden on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Edible Garden
Edible Garden AG Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, operate as a controlled environment agriculture farming company. It offers various packaged products, including cilantro, rosemary, mint, thyme, oregano, bay leaves, chives, poultry mix, sage, dill, buttercrunch living lettuce, basil, living butterhead lettuce, basil, parsley, arugula spring mix, baby arugula blend, baby romaine, and crisp ranch and Caesar salad kits. The company sells its products to various regional and national supermarkets. Edible Garden AG Incorporated was founded in 2020 and is based in Belvidere, New Jersey.
About Archer Daniels Midland
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company engages in the procurement, transportation, storage, processing, and merchandising of agricultural commodities, ingredients, flavors, and solutions in the United States, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates in three segments: Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition. The company originates, merchandises, stores, and transports agricultural raw materials, such as oilseeds and soft seeds. It also engages in the agricultural commodity and feed product import, export, and distribution; and various structured trade finance activities. In addition, the company offers soybean meal and oil; vegetable and salad oils and protein meals; ingredients for the food, feed, energy, and industrial customers; margarine, shortening, and other food products; and partially refined oils to produce biodiesel and glycols for use in chemicals, paints, and other industrial products. Further, it provides peanuts, peanut-derived ingredients, and cotton cellulose pulp; sweeteners, corn and wheat starches, syrup, glucose, wheat flour, and dextrose; alcohol, and other food and animal feed ingredients; ethyl alcohol and ethanol; corn gluten feed and meal; distillers' grains; corn germ; and citric acids. Additionally, the company provides proteins, natural flavors, flavor systems, natural colors, emulsifiers, soluble fiber, polyols, hydrocolloids, probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics, enzymes, and botanical extracts; and other specialty food and feed ingredients; edible beans; formula feeds, and animal health and nutrition products; and contract and private label pet treats and food products. It also offers futures commission merchant; commodity brokerage services; cash margins and securities pledged to commodity exchange clearinghouse; and cash pledged as security under certain insurance arrangements. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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