Critical Review: Wing Yip Food Holdings Group (NASDAQ:WYHG) & Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND)

Wing Yip Food Holdings Group (NASDAQ:WYHG) and Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Wing Yip Food Holdings Group and Beyond Meat, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Wing Yip Food Holdings Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Beyond Meat	2	1	0	0	1.33

Beyond Meat has a consensus target price of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 50.38%. Given Beyond Meat’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Beyond Meat is more favorable than Wing Yip Food Holdings Group.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

52.5% of Beyond Meat shares are held by institutional investors. 7.5% of Beyond Meat shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Wing Yip Food Holdings Group and Beyond Meat’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Wing Yip Food Holdings Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Beyond Meat	-52.27%	N/A	-23.14%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Wing Yip Food Holdings Group and Beyond Meat”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Wing Yip Food Holdings Group	$144.63 million	0.43	$11.25 million	N/A	N/A
Beyond Meat	$326.45 million	0.62	-$160.28 million	($2.18)	-1.22

Wing Yip Food Holdings Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Beyond Meat.

Summary

Beyond Meat beats Wing Yip Food Holdings Group on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Wing Yip Food Holdings Group

Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Ltd. is a holding company. It engages in the business of processing, selling, and distributing cured meat products including cured pork sausages, cured pork meat, and other cured meat products such as cured chicken, cured duck, and cured fish; snack products including ready-to-eat sausages, jerky, duck necks, duck feet, and clay pot rice; and frozen meat products including frozen sausages, frozen beef patties, and frozen chicken breast fillets. The company was founded on April 24, 2015 and is headquartered in Zhongshan, China.

About Beyond Meat

Beyond Meat, Inc., a plant-based meat company, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells plant-based meat products in the United States and internationally. The company sells a range of plant-based meat products across the platforms of beef, pork, and poultry. It sells its products through grocery, mass merchandiser, club stores, and natural retailer channels, as well as various food-away-from-home channels, including restaurants, foodservice outlets, and schools. The company was formerly known as Savage River, Inc. and changed its name to Beyond Meat, Inc. in September 2018. Beyond Meat, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.