How Universal Corporation stacks up

UVV · against 147 other Consumer Defensive companies listed in US-listed

Growth

17/ 100

Near the bottom of its peers.

Ranked #127 of 148 · scores higher than 13% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the growth score

19 peers with a growth score of 10–19, including UVV · Click a bar to see the companies

Why growth scores 17?

Weighted metrics compared with all Consumer Defensive companies.

Mainly because of its earnings per share growth and revenue growth, which are weaker than most Consumer Defensive peers.

Earnings per share turned from a profit to a loss. Earnings per share growth: — vs peer median 1.5%
slower revenue growth over the last year: weaker than 77% of peers. Revenue growth: -3.6% vs peer median 2.8%
3-year revenue growth is close to the peer norm. 3-year revenue growth: 2.2% vs peer median 3.7%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = UVV, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	UVV	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Revenue growthHigher is better · 152 reported	-3.6%	4.1%	17%	33%
Earnings per share growthHigher is better · 109 reported	-65.6%	4.5%	8%	33%
3-year revenue growthHigher is better · 147 reported	2.2%	3.5%	45%	33%

Ranking by growth score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around UVV

Rank	Company	Market cap	Growth	Overall
1	TAL Education GroupTAL · US-listed	5.5B USD	100	84
2	Gaotu Techedu Inc.GOTU · US-listed	536M USD	99	39
3	Freshpet, Inc.FRPT · US-listed	3.3B USD	98	71
3	Mama's Creations, Inc.MAMA · US-listed	607M USD	98	67
5	The Vita Coco Company, Inc.COCO · US-listed	3.5B USD	97	73
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124	Hormel Foods CorporationHRL · US-listed	11.7B USD	18	38
124	USANA Health Sciences, Inc.USNA · US-listed	275M USD	18	42
127	Conagra Brands, Inc.CAG · US-listed	6.9B USD	17	36
127	J&J Snack Foods Corp.JJSF · US-listed	1.6B USD	17	43
127	Universal CorporationUVV · US-listed	983M USD	17	35
130	CHS Inc.CHSCL · US-listed	Unavailable	16	30
130	Constellation Brands, Inc.STZ · US-listed	23.6B USD	16	48
130	Molson Coors Beverage CompanyTAP-A · US-listed	8.2B USD	16	17
133	Adecoagro S.A.AGRO · US-listed	1.4B USD	15	22

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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