Reviewing Alico (NASDAQ:ALCO) and Green Thumb Industries (OTC:GTBIF)

Alico (NASDAQ:ALCO) and Green Thumb Industries (OTC:GTBIF) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

62.3% of Alico shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Green Thumb Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Alico shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of Green Thumb Industries shares are held 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.

Risk & Volatility

Alico has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Green Thumb Industries has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Alico and Green Thumb Industries’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alico	-91.09%	-3.01%	-1.95%
Green Thumb Industries	5.68%	3.65%	2.52%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Alico and Green Thumb Industries”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alico	$49.55 million	4.59	$6.97 million	($5.92)	-5.03
Green Thumb Industries	$1.05 billion	1.43	$36.27 million	$0.27	26.33

Green Thumb Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Alico. Alico is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Green Thumb Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Alico and Green Thumb Industries, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alico	0	0	0	0	0.00
Green Thumb Industries	0	0	0	3	4.00

Summary

Green Thumb Industries beats Alico on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Alico

Alico, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an agribusiness and land management company in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Alico Citrus, and Land Management and Other Operations. The Alico Citrus segment engages in planting, owning, cultivating, and/or managing citrus groves to produce fruit for sale to fresh and processed citrus markets, including activities related to the purchase and resale of fruit and value-added services, which include contracting for the harvesting, marketing, and hauling of citrus. The Land Management and Other Operations segment is involved in the activities related to native plant sales, grazing and hunting leasing, management, and/or conservation of unimproved native pastureland; and activities related to rock mining royalties and other insignificant lines of business, as well as in the activities related to owning and/or leasing improved farmland. The company was incorporated in 1960 and is based in Fort Myers, Florida.

About Green Thumb Industries

Green Thumb Industries Inc. manufactures, distributes, markets, and sells of cannabis products for medical and adult-use in the United States. It operates through two segments, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods. The company offers cannabis flower; processed and packaged products, including pre-rolls, concentrates, vapes, capsules, tinctures, edibles, topicals, and other cannabis-related products under the &Shine, Beboe, Dogwalkers, Doctor Solomon’s, Good Green, incredibles, and RHYTHM brands. It distributes its products primarily to third-party retail customers and sells finished products directly to consumers in its own retail stores, as well as direct-to consumer delivery channel. Green Thumb Industries Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.