Financial Contrast: Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD) and Oriental Rise (NASDAQ:ORIS)

Oriental Rise (NASDAQ:ORIS) and Nomad Foods (NYSE:NOMD) 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 risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Oriental Rise and Nomad Foods’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Oriental Rise	N/A	N/A	N/A
Nomad Foods	6.56%	9.73%	3.96%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Oriental Rise and Nomad Foods”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Oriental Rise	$15.01 million	0.18	$2.09 million	N/A	N/A
Nomad Foods	$3.35 billion	0.55	$245.74 million	$1.44	8.41

Nomad Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Oriental Rise.

Risk & Volatility

Oriental Rise has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nomad Foods has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

75.3% of Nomad Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 17.3% of Nomad Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Oriental Rise and Nomad Foods, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Oriental Rise	1	0	0	0	1.00
Nomad Foods	1	1	3	0	2.40

Nomad Foods has a consensus target price of $18.67, suggesting a potential upside of 54.21%. Given Nomad Foods’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nomad Foods is more favorable than Oriental Rise.

Summary

Nomad Foods beats Oriental Rise on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Oriental Rise

Oriental Rise Holdings Ltd. engages in the cultivation, processing, and sale of tea leaves and tea products. It operates through the Primarily-Processes Teas and Refined Teas segments. The company was founded by Chun Sun Wong, Wai Kwong Fong and Deming Zhou on January 25, 2019 and is headquartered in Ningde, China.

About Nomad Foods

Nomad Foods Limited, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, and distributes a range of frozen food products in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company offers frozen fish products, including fish fingers, coated fish, and natural fish; ready-to-cook vegetable products, such as peas and spinach; and frozen poultry and meat products comprising nuggets, grills, and burgers. It also provides meal products that include ready-to-cook noodles, pasta, lasagna, pancakes, and other ready-made meals; ice creams, such as in-home and out-of-home ice creams; and other products consisting of soups, pizzas, bakery goods, and meat substitutes. The company sells its products to supermarkets and food retail chains primarily under the Birds Eye, Green Cuisine, iglo, Findus, Aunt Bessie's, Goodfella's, Frikom, Ledo, La Cocinera, and Belviva brand names. Nomad Foods Limited was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Feltham, the United Kingdom.