Comparing Coffee (NASDAQ:JVA) and Chagee (NASDAQ:CHA)

Chagee (NASDAQ:CHA) and Coffee (NASDAQ:JVA) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Chagee and Coffee’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Chagee	N/A	N/A	N/A
Coffee	1.88%	6.82%	4.49%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Chagee and Coffee”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Chagee	$1.85 billion	0.91	$344.71 million	$0.88	10.41
Coffee	$96.28 million	0.24	$1.40 million	$0.34	12.06

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Chagee and Coffee, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Chagee	1	4	4	0	2.33
Coffee	0	1	0	0	2.00

Chagee currently has a consensus target price of $29.67, suggesting a potential upside of 223.92%. Given Chagee’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Chagee is more favorable than Coffee.

Dividends

Chagee pays an annual dividend of $0.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. Coffee pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Chagee pays out 98.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Coffee pays out 23.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Chagee beats Coffee on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Chagee

Our Mission With every cup of our tea, we aspire to foster a global connection of people and cultures. Our Vision To modernize the tea-drinking experience through technology and innovation. Our Core Values “Customer First” is the foundational philosophy of how we make decisions and run our business. “Caring for Partners” is the core value that defines how we interact with consumers, franchise partners, suppliers, and employees. “Quality, Health, and Convenience” is the guiding principle of how we make our products. CHAGEE is a leading premium tea drinks brand, serving healthy and delicious freshly-made tea drinks. Its creation, in 2017, was inspired by how international coffee chains have made coffee drinking both a worldwide lifestyle and a social concept since the 1970s. This success has made us believe that tea drinking needs to be transformed too — and led us to use the power of technology and brand to make tea drinking a modern-day experience that connects people and cultures around the world. Today, nearly eight years after our inception and with our relentless passion for technology and pursuit of innovation, we stand out as China’s largest, fastest-growing, and most popular premium freshly-made tea drinks brand, according to iResearch: • As of December 31, 2024, our network comprised 6,440 teahouses, including 6,284 located in China. This scale represents the largest store network among all premium freshly-made tea drinks brands in China. • In 2023 and 2024, our total GMV generated in China and overseas reached RMB10.8 billion and RMB29.5 billion, respectively. As measured by GMV generated within China, we recorded the fastest growth from 2022 to 2024 among all freshly-made tea drinks brands with over 1,000 stores in China. • We have ranked the 1st on China’s social influence index among all freshly-made tea drinks brands in China since October 2023, according to the Social Touch Search Engine. — Universally Appealing Core Menu At CHAGEE, we persistently explore and create tea drink recipes that embody purity and a timeless appeal to the diverse palates of a broad spectrum of consumers. This strategic focus anchors the development of our simple core menu. We use advanced extraction technology to accentuate the pure taste of tea and enhance its depth of flavor through meticulous blending. This technique results in a differentiated, delicious taste of freshness and healthiness that has the ability to transcend time and cultures, captivating consumers worldwide. In 2022, 2023 and 2024, approximately 79%, 87% and 91% of CHAGEE’s GMV generated within China, respectively, were attributed to our signature tea latte products, with approximately 44%, 57% and 61% of GMV generated within China derived from our top three best-selling tea lattes. Focusing on a simple core menu also makes it easier for us to ensure product quality, consistency, and convenience through more concentrated, streamlined, and efficient supply chain management as well as highly automated tea preparation processes. This ultimately leads to improved operational efficiency and service quality of our expansive teahouse network. Modernity Powered by Technology We are committed to operational efficiency and excellence, which is underpinned by our cutting-edge “tea tech” initiatives. Using digital and automation technologies, we empower every crucial aspect of our operations, from product development to supply chain management, and from consumer engagement to storefront operations. We collaborate creatively with our supply chain partners to co-develop automated tea-making machines, heralding the modernization of the century-old tea industry. The application of customized equipment allows our in-store crew to make every cup of CHAGEE drink with consistent quality and taste. Across our teahouses in China and overseas, this level of automation allows us to ensure consistent quality control, enhance store productivity, reduce consumer wait times, and ultimately, elevate the overall tea-drinking experience. Our strength in digitalization allows us to achieve what we define to be the “Five Things Online” — drinks preparation, consumer and partner relationships, supply chain, store lifecycle management, and payments. Essentially, this approach enables us and our franchise partners to run teahouses online, with centralized operations, automated replenishment, and fully integrated management of both franchised and company-owned teahouses. The resulting data insights are organically and intelligently fed into digitalized operations, creating a positive feedback loop that fosters more efficient and closer-knit collaborations with our franchise partners. The seamless integration of these technologies enables our franchise partners to make better tea drinks for consumers and operate their teahouses smartly and more efficiently. It also allows us and our franchise partners to focus more on consumer services to deliver a compelling experience. Effectively Managed Teahouse Network As of December 31, 2024, our CHAGEE brand encompasses a vast, growing network of 6,440 teahouses, including 6,284 teahouses covering 32 out of 34 province-level divisions across China and 156 teahouses overseas. Of our extensive teahouse network, 6,271 are franchised and 169 are company-owned. We directly manage a total of 398 teahouses, including all of our company-owned teahouses and 229 franchised teahouses. We take pride in our strong ability to manage and scale a franchise network both across China and in a growing number of overseas markets. This ability is rooted in our “managed franchise model” that focuses on effective, centralized management of our franchise network in accordance with our uniform standards in product quality, supply chain management, and consumer service excellence. Our ability to effectively manage our growing teahouse network is manifest in our strong operating results: • Number of teahouses. The number of our teahouses increased by 83.4% from 3,511 as of December 31, 2023 to 6,440 as of December 31, 2024. • GMV. Our total GMV generated in China and overseas increased by 734.3% from RMB1,293.7 million in 2022 to RMB10,792.8 million in 2023, and further increased by 172.9% to RMB29,457.7 million in 2024. As we rapidly scale our operations, our teahouses continue to deliver strong performance. Our average number of cups sold per teahouse per month in China increased from 8,981 in 2022 to 25,099 in 2024. The average monthly GMV of our teahouses in China increased by 188.2% from RMB177.5 thousand in 2022 to RMB511.7 thousand in 2024. Our principal executive offices are located in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.

About Coffee

Coffee Holding Co., Inc. engages in manufacturing, roasting, packaging, marketing, and distributing roasted and blended coffees in the United States, Australia, Canada, England, and China. It offers wholesale green coffee products, including unroasted raw beans that are sold to large, medium, and small roasters, as well as coffee shop operators; and roasts, blends, packages, and sells coffee under private labels in cans, brick packages, and instants of various sizes. The company also roasts and blends company label branded coffee to supermarkets, wholesalers, and individually owned stores; and sells tabletop coffee roasting equipment, instant coffees, and tea products for its customers. Its coffee brands include Cafe Caribe, Don Manuel, S&W, Cafe Supremo, Via Roma, Premier Roasters, and Harmony Bay. The company was formerly known as Transpacific International Group Corp and changed its name to Coffee Holding Co., Inc. in April 1998. Coffee Holding Co., Inc. was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Staten Island, New York.