Contrasting Sino Agro Food (OTCMKTS:SIAF) and Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW)

Sino Agro Food (OTCMKTS:SIAF) and Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Sino Agro Food and Calavo Growers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sino Agro Food	0	0	0	0	0.00
Calavo Growers	0	2	1	0	2.33

Calavo Growers has a consensus target price of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 81.04%. Given Calavo Growers’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Calavo Growers is more favorable than Sino Agro Food.

Profitability

This table compares Sino Agro Food and Calavo Growers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sino Agro Food	N/A	N/A	N/A
Calavo Growers	2.28%	11.73%	7.86%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

81.3% of Calavo Growers shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Sino Agro Food shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Calavo Growers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Sino Agro Food and Calavo Growers”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sino Agro Food	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Calavo Growers	$693.71 million	0.57	-$1.08 million	$0.88	25.11

Sino Agro Food has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Calavo Growers.

Summary

Calavo Growers beats Sino Agro Food on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Sino Agro Food

Sino Agro Food, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the agriculture and aquaculture business. It operates through the following segments: Fishery Development; Hylocereus Undatus Plantation; Organic Fertilizer and Bread Grass; Cattle Farm Development; and Corporate and Others. Its products include fish, eels, prawns, beef, and mutton. The company was founded by Yip Kun Lee on October 1, 1974 and is headquartered in Guangzhou, China.

About Calavo Growers

Calavo Growers, Inc. markets and distributes avocados, prepared avocados, and other perishable foods to retail grocery and foodservice customers, club stores, mass merchandisers, food distributors, and wholesale customers worldwide. It operates through Grown and Prepared segments. The Grown segment distributes tomatoes and papayas; and procures avocados grown in California, Mexico, Peru, and Colombia. The Prepared segment is involved in the distribution of prepared avocado products, salsa, fresh-cut fruit and vegetables, fresh prepared entrees salads, wraps, sandwiches, parfaits, and fresh snacking products, as well as ready-to-heat entrees, other hot bars and various deli items, meals kit components, and salad kits. It offers its products under the Calavo brands and related logos; and Avo Fresco, Bueno, Avo Fresco, Bueno, Calavo Gold, Celebrate the Taste, El Dorado, Taste of Paradise, The First Name in Avocados, The Family of Fresh, ProRipeVIP, RIPE NOW!, Renaissance Food Group, Garden Highway Fresh Cut, Garden Highway, and Garden Highway Chef Essentials trademarks. Calavo Growers, Inc. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Santa Paula, California.