Reviewing Celsius (NASDAQ:CELH) & Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT)

Celsius (NASDAQ:CELH) and Australian Oilseeds (NASDAQ:COOT) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.

Volatility & Risk

Celsius has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Australian Oilseeds has a beta of 0.12, indicating that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Celsius and Australian Oilseeds, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Celsius	0	4	20	0	2.83
Australian Oilseeds	1	0	0	0	1.00

Celsius presently has a consensus price target of $63.89, suggesting a potential upside of 111.85%. Given Celsius’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Celsius is more favorable than Australian Oilseeds.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Celsius and Australian Oilseeds”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Celsius	$2.97 billion	2.60	$108.00 million	$0.43	70.14
Australian Oilseeds	$27.01 million	0.63	-$840,000.00	($0.04)	-15.25

Celsius has higher revenue and earnings than Australian Oilseeds. Australian Oilseeds is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Celsius, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Celsius and Australian Oilseeds’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Celsius	5.85%	37.95%	9.62%
Australian Oilseeds	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider & Institutional Ownership

61.0% of Celsius shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of Australian Oilseeds shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Celsius shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 69.1% of Australian Oilseeds shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Celsius beats Australian Oilseeds on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Celsius

Celsius Holdings, Inc. develops, processes, markets, distributes, and sells functional energy drinks and liquid supplements in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canadian, European, Middle Eastern, Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company offers CELSIUS, a fitness drink or supplement designed to accelerate metabolism and burn body fat; various flavors and carbonated and non-carbonated functional energy drinks under the CELSIUS Originals and Vibe name, as well as functional energy drink under the CELSIUS Essentials and CELSIUS On-the-Go Powder names; and CELSIUS ready-to drink products. It distributes its products through direct-to-store delivery, distributors, supermarkets, convenience stores, drug stores, nutritional stores, and mass merchants, as well as health clubs, gyms, the military, and e-commerce websites. The company was formerly known as Vector Ventures, Inc. and changed its name to Celsius Holdings, Inc. in January 2007. Celsius Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

About Australian Oilseeds

Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale oil seeds through its subsidiaries. It focuses on acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction, and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all the assets of, entering contractual arrangements with, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was founded on December 29, 2022 and is headquartered in Cootamundra, Australia.