Reviewing Maplebear (NASDAQ:CART) & Grove Collaborative (NYSE:GROV)

Grove Collaborative (NYSE:GROV) and Maplebear (NASDAQ:CART) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Grove Collaborative and Maplebear, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Grove Collaborative	1	1	1	0	2.00
Maplebear	0	6	14	0	2.70

Grove Collaborative currently has a consensus target price of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 102.02%. Maplebear has a consensus target price of $58.24, indicating a potential upside of 16.68%. Given Grove Collaborative’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Grove Collaborative is more favorable than Maplebear.

Profitability

This table compares Grove Collaborative and Maplebear’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Grove Collaborative	-4.07%	N/A	-12.35%
Maplebear	11.97%	20.19%	14.13%

Risk & Volatility

Grove Collaborative has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Maplebear has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

91.6% of Grove Collaborative shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of Maplebear shares are held by institutional investors. 30.3% of Grove Collaborative shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 24.0% of Maplebear shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Grove Collaborative and Maplebear”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Grove Collaborative	$173.72 million	0.24	-$11.72 million	($0.19)	-5.21
Maplebear	$3.74 billion	3.09	$447.00 million	$1.83	27.27

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

Summary

Maplebear beats Grove Collaborative on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Grove Collaborative

Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc. operates as a plastic neutral consumer products retailer in the United States. It offers household, personal care, beauty, and other consumer products through retail channels, third parties, direct-to-consumer platform, and mobile applications, as well as online store. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About Maplebear

Maplebear Inc., doing business as Instacart, engages in the provision of online grocery shopping services to households in North America. It sells and delivers grocery products, as well as pickup services through a mobile application and website. It also operates virtual convenience stores; and provides software-as-a-service solutions to retailers. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.