Contrasting Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) and CIMG (NASDAQ:IMG)

CIMG (NASDAQ:IMG) and Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Volatility & Risk

CIMG has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utz Brands has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

23.4% of CIMG shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Utz Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of CIMG shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Utz Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares CIMG and Utz Brands’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CIMG	N/A	-23.59%	-15.90%
Utz Brands	-2.00%	8.97%	4.32%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for CIMG and Utz Brands, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CIMG	1	0	0	0	1.00
Utz Brands	1	9	1	0	2.00

Utz Brands has a consensus target price of $13.39, suggesting a potential downside of 6.29%. Given Utz Brands’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Utz Brands is more favorable than CIMG.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares CIMG and Utz Brands”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CIMG	$10.30 million	0.21	-$4.88 million	($4.00)	-0.06
Utz Brands	$1.44 billion	1.43	$800,000.00	($0.33)	-43.29

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

Summary

Utz Brands beats CIMG on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CIMG

CIMG Inc. is a digital marketing, sales and distribution company for various consumer products with focuses on food and beverages. CIMG Inc., formerly known as NUZEE INC., is based in BEIJING.

About Utz Brands

Utz Brands, Inc. engages in manufacture, marketing, and distribution of snack foods. It offers a range of salty snacks, including salty snacks, including potato chips, tortilla chips, pretzels, cheese snacks, pork skins, veggie snacks, pub/party mixes, tortilla chips, salsa and dips, ready-to-eat popcorn, and other snacks under the Utz, Zapp’s, ON THE BORDER, Golden Flake, Boulder Canyon, Hawaiian, TORTIYAHS!, etc. The company sells its products to wholesale and other distributors, grocery stores, convenience and drug stores, discount stores, mass merchandisers, membership club stores, hard discounters, and specialty and e-commerce retailers. Utz Brands, Inc. was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Hanover, Pennsylvania.