Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) & Top Wealth Group (NASDAQ:TWG) Financial Comparison

Top Wealth Group (NASDAQ:TWG) and Utz Brands (NYSE:UTZ) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk and dividends.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Top Wealth Group and Utz Brands”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Top Wealth Group	$14.38 million	0.78	$2.44 million	N/A	N/A
Utz Brands	$1.41 billion	1.42	-$24.94 million	$0.18	78.36

Top Wealth Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Utz Brands.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Top Wealth Group and Utz Brands, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Top Wealth Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Utz Brands	0	1	7	0	2.88

Utz Brands has a consensus price target of $19.25, suggesting a potential upside of 36.48%. Given Utz Brands’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Utz Brands is more favorable than Top Wealth Group.

Profitability

This table compares Top Wealth Group and Utz Brands’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Top Wealth Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Utz Brands	1.13%	7.92%	4.18%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

96.0% of Utz Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.3% of Utz Brands shares are owned by company 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

Utz Brands beats Top Wealth Group on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Top Wealth Group

Top Wealth Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides caviar and caviar-based gourmet products in Hong Kong and internationally. The company also trades in caviars; and offers its products under the Imperial Cristal Caviar brand name. It serves food and beverage related distributors. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Sai Wan, Hong Kong. Top Wealth Group Holding Limited operates as a subsidiary of Winwin Development Group Limited.

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.