Mama’s Creations (NASDAQ:MAMA) versus Nocera (NASDAQ:NCRA) Head to Head Contrast

Mama’s Creations (NASDAQ:MAMA) and Nocera (NASDAQ:NCRA) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.

Volatility & Risk

Mama’s Creations has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nocera has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Mama’s Creations and Nocera”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mama’s Creations	$123.33 million	5.14	$3.71 million	$0.11	141.73
Nocera	$17.01 million	0.18	-$2.35 million	($0.24)	-0.88

Mama’s Creations has higher revenue and earnings than Nocera. Nocera is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mama’s Creations, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Mama’s Creations and Nocera, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mama’s Creations	0	0	5	1	3.17
Nocera	1	0	0	0	1.00

Mama’s Creations presently has a consensus target price of $17.60, suggesting a potential upside of 12.89%. Given Mama’s Creations’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mama’s Creations is more favorable than Nocera.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

45.2% of Mama’s Creations shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of Nocera shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.5% of Mama’s Creations shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Nocera shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Mama’s Creations and Nocera’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mama’s Creations	3.08%	16.72%	9.28%
Nocera	-24.59%	-81.74%	-69.13%

Summary

Mama’s Creations beats Nocera on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Mama’s Creations

Mama’s Creations, Inc. engages in the marketing, manufacturing, and distribution of beef meatballs with sauce, turkey meatballs with sauce, beef meat loaf, sausage and peppers, chicken parmesan, and other similar meats and sauces. Its products include beef meatballs, turkey meatballs, stuffed meatballs, lasagna roll ups, retail ready meals, bulk deli, single-size pasta bowls, and packaged refrigerated products. Its brands include MamaMancini’s, Creative Salads, and The Olive Branch. The company was founded by Daniel Dougherty on July 22, 2009 and is headquartered in East Rutherford, NJ.

About Nocera

Nocera, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, and produces recirculating aquaculture systems for fish farms in Taiwan. The company also offers consulting, technology transfer, and aquaculture project management services to new and existing aquaculture management business services. In addition, the company sells signature seafood porridge bowl through its flagship bento box store. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan.