Contrasting CACI International (NYSE:CACI) and Where Food Comes From (NASDAQ:WFCF)

Where Food Comes From (NASDAQ:WFCF) and CACI International (NYSE:CACI) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

18.8% of Where Food Comes From shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.4% of CACI International shares are owned by institutional investors. 53.5% of Where Food Comes From shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of CACI International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Where Food Comes From and CACI International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Where Food Comes From	5.78%	15.39%	10.24%
CACI International	5.60%	15.65%	6.45%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Where Food Comes From and CACI International, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Where Food Comes From	0	1	0	0	2.00
CACI International	1	2	9	0	2.67

CACI International has a consensus price target of $700.36, suggesting a potential upside of 14.71%. Given CACI International’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CACI International is more favorable than Where Food Comes From.

Volatility & Risk

Where Food Comes From has a beta of 0.15, indicating that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CACI International has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Where Food Comes From and CACI International”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Where Food Comes From	$25.03 million	2.63	$1.54 million	$0.28	47.19
CACI International	$9.57 billion	1.41	$535.81 million	$24.15	25.28

CACI International has higher revenue and earnings than Where Food Comes From. CACI International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Where Food Comes From, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

CACI International beats Where Food Comes From on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Where Food Comes From

Where Food Comes From, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a third-party food verification company in North America. The company operates through Verification and Certification, and Professional Services segments. It conducts on-site and desk audits to verify that claims being made about livestock, food, other specialty crops, and agricultural and aquaculture products are accurate, as well as offers Where Food Comes From Source Verified retail and restaurant labeling program, which connects consumers directly to the source of the food they purchase through product labeling, and web-based information sharing and education. It also offers professional services and technology solutions; verification solutions; and consulting services, as well as sells hardware. The company serves beef and pork packers, organic producers and processors, and specialty retail chains. The company was formerly known as Integrated Management Information, Inc. and changed its name to Where Food Comes From, Inc. in December 2012. Where Food Comes From, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Castle Rock, Colorado.

About CACI International

CACI International Inc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of expertise and technology to enterprise and mission customers in support of national security in the intelligence, defense, and federal civilian sectors. The company operates through two segments, Domestic Operations and International Operations. The Domestic Operations segment offers digital solutions by modernizing enterprise and agency-unique applications, enterprise infrastructure, and business processes; C4ISR solutions, including command, control, communications, and computer (C4), as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) technology and networks; and cyber solutions for cybersecurity, cyberspace, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence operations. This segment also provides space solutions, comprising intelligence fusion, data analytic, and decision support, as well as logistics solutions; engineering services, such as platform integration, modernization and sustainment, system engineering, naval architecture, training and simulation, and logistics engineering; design, implement, protect, and manage secure enterprise IT solutions for federal agencies; and mission support solutions, that include analytic services, as well as scenario-based instruction across the spectrum of intelligence processing, collection, and products. The International Operations segment provides a range of IT services, proprietary data, and software products to the commercial and government customers in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and internationally. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.