Head-To-Head Comparison: Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT) and The Hain Celestial Group (NASDAQ:HAIN)

The Hain Celestial Group (NASDAQ:HAIN) and Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT) 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, dividends, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.

Volatility & Risk

The Hain Celestial Group has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Australian Oilseeds has a beta of 0.01, suggesting that its share price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

97.0% of The Hain Celestial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of Australian Oilseeds shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of The Hain Celestial Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 69.1% of Australian Oilseeds shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares The Hain Celestial Group and Australian Oilseeds’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
The Hain Celestial Group	-34.69%	0.77%	0.27%
Australian Oilseeds	-2.98%	-104.19%	-4.15%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for The Hain Celestial Group and Australian Oilseeds, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
The Hain Celestial Group	1	10	1	0	2.00
Australian Oilseeds	1	0	0	0	1.00

The Hain Celestial Group presently has a consensus target price of $2.76, indicating a potential upside of 139.61%. Given The Hain Celestial Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe The Hain Celestial Group is more favorable than Australian Oilseeds.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares The Hain Celestial Group and Australian Oilseeds”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
The Hain Celestial Group	$1.56 billion	0.07	-$530.84 million	($5.93)	-0.19
Australian Oilseeds	$27.01 million	0.67	-$840,000.00	($0.04)	-16.30

Australian Oilseeds has lower revenue, but higher earnings than The Hain Celestial Group. Australian Oilseeds is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Hain Celestial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

The Hain Celestial Group beats Australian Oilseeds on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About The Hain Celestial Group

The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells organic and natural products in United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and internationally. It operates through two segments: North America and International. The company offers infant formula; infant, toddler, and kids' food; plant-based beverages and frozen desserts, such as soy, rice, oat, and spelt; and condiments. It also provides cooking and culinary oils; cereal bars; fresh and aseptic soups; yogurts; and nut butters. In addition, the company offers hot-eating desserts, refrigerated and frozen plant-based meat-alternative products, jams, fruit spreads, jellies, honey, natural sweeteners, syrups, dessert sauces, and marmalade products, as well as other food products. Further, it provides snack products comprising potato, root vegetable and other exotic vegetable chips, straws, tortilla chips; and personal care products that include hand, skin, hair, and oral care products, as well as deodorants, baby food, sunscreens, and other products under the Alba Botanica, Avalon Organics, Earth's Best, JASON, Live Clean, and Queen Helene brands name. Additionally, the company offers herbal, green, black, wellness, rooibos, and chai tea under the Celestial Seasonings brand. It sells pantry products under the Spectrum, Spectrum Essentials, MaraNatha, Imagine broths, Hain Pure Foods, Health Valley, and Hollywood brands. It sells its products through specialty and natural food distributors, supermarkets, natural food stores, mass-market and e-commerce retailers, food service channels and clubs, and drug and convenience stores. The company was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey.

About Australian Oilseeds

Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale oil seeds through its subsidiaries. It focuses on acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction, and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all the assets of, entering contractual arrangements with, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was founded on December 29, 2022 and is headquartered in Cootamundra, Australia.