Atacadão (OTCMKTS:ATAAY – Get Free Report) and Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE – Get Free Report) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Profitability
This table compares Atacadão and Andersons’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Atacadão | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Andersons | 0.51% | 7.79% | 2.63% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Atacadão and Andersons, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Atacadão | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Andersons | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3.00 |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Atacadão and Andersons’ revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Atacadão | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Andersons | $17.33 billion | 0.10 | $131.08 million | $2.49 | 20.63 |
Andersons has higher revenue and earnings than Atacadão.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
85.2% of Andersons shares are held by institutional investors. 5.7% of Andersons shares are held 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
Andersons beats Atacadão on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Atacadão
Atacadão S.A. engages in the wholesale and retail of food, clothing, home appliances, electronics, and other products in Brazil. The company operates through Retail, Atacadão, and Financial Solutions segments. The company offers alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages; chocolate and cocoa powders, sugar and sweeteners, baby foods, rice, oats and cereals, cookies, toasts and snacks, coffee, teas, canned and uncanned products, sweets and deserts, flour, bean, yeast, grains and seed, pasta and sauces, mixture for bakery and confectionery, oils, fats and lard, soups and creams, and seasonings and condiments; and bathroom, kitchen, pool, clothing, and general cleaning products. It also provides personal hygiene and perfumery products; cold and diary products; meat, poultry, and fish products; packaging and disposables; frozen products; stationery and office products; and food baskets. The company offers its products through a chain of wholesale self-service and wholesale delivery stores, hypermarkets, supermarkets, convenience stores, gas stations, pharmacies, and e-commerce under the Carrefour and Atacadão brands. In addition, the company also credit cards and consumer finance, and other products, such as insurance policies. Atacadão S.A. was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.
About Andersons
The Andersons, Inc. operates in trade, renewables, and plant nutrient sectors in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Trade, Renewables, and Plant Nutrient. The company's Trade segment operates grain elevators; stores commodities; and provides grain marketing, risk management, and origination services, as well as sells commodities, such as corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, and corn oil. This segment also engages in the commodity merchandising business, as well as offers logistics for physical commodities, such as whole grains, grain products, feed ingredients, domestic fuel products, and other agricultural commodities. Its Renewables segment produces, purchases, and sells ethanol, and co-products, as well as offers facility operations, risk management, and marketing services to the ethanol plants it invests in and operates. The company's Plant Nutrient segment manufactures, distributes, and retails agricultural and related plant nutrients, liquid industrial products, corncob-based products, and pelleted lime and gypsum products, as well as turf fertilizer, pesticide, and herbicide products; and crop nutrients, crop protection chemicals, and seed products, as well as provides application and agronomic services to commercial and family farmers. In addition, this segment produces corncob-based products for laboratory animal bedding and private-label cat litter, as well as absorbents, blast cleaners, carriers, and polishers; professional lawn care products for golf course and turf care markets; fertilizer and weed, and pest control products; pelleted lime, gypsum, and value add soil amendments; and micronutrients, and soil amendments, as well as industrial products comprising nitrogen reagents, calcium nitrate, deicers, and dust abatement products. The Andersons, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is based in Maumee, Ohio.
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