Reviewing BellRing Brands (NYSE:BRBR) and Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT)

BellRing Brands (NYSE:BRBR) and Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for BellRing Brands and Australian Oilseeds, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BellRing Brands	1	6	11	0	2.56
Australian Oilseeds	1	0	0	0	1.00

BellRing Brands currently has a consensus price target of $42.53, indicating a potential upside of 39.23%. Given BellRing Brands’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe BellRing Brands is more favorable than Australian Oilseeds.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

95.0% of BellRing Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of Australian Oilseeds shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of BellRing Brands shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 69.1% of Australian Oilseeds shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

BellRing Brands has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Australian Oilseeds has a beta of 0.01, indicating that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares BellRing Brands and Australian Oilseeds’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BellRing Brands	9.33%	-95.87%	29.63%
Australian Oilseeds	-2.98%	-104.19%	-4.15%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares BellRing Brands and Australian Oilseeds”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BellRing Brands	$2.32 billion	1.58	$216.20 million	$1.68	18.18
Australian Oilseeds	$27.01 million	0.86	-$840,000.00	($0.04)	-20.83

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

Summary

BellRing Brands beats Australian Oilseeds on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BellRing Brands

BellRing Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides various nutrition products in the United States. The company offers ready-to-drink (RTD) protein shakes, other RTD beverages, powders, nutrition bars, and other products primarily under the Premier Protein and Dymatize brands. It distributes its products through club, food, drug, mass, eCommerce, specialty, and convenience channels. BellRing Brands, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.

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.