Heritage Distilling (NASDAQ:CASK) versus Westrock Coffee (NASDAQ:WEST) Head-To-Head Review

Heritage Distilling (NASDAQ:CASK) and Westrock Coffee (NASDAQ:WEST) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

45.1% of Westrock Coffee shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.1% of Westrock Coffee shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Heritage Distilling and Westrock Coffee’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Heritage Distilling	N/A	N/A	N/A
Westrock Coffee	-9.05%	-20.72%	-2.01%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Heritage Distilling and Westrock Coffee, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Heritage Distilling	0	0	0	0	0.00
Westrock Coffee	0	0	4	0	3.00

Westrock Coffee has a consensus target price of $11.25, suggesting a potential upside of 58.67%. Given Westrock Coffee’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Westrock Coffee is more favorable than Heritage Distilling.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Heritage Distilling and Westrock Coffee”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Heritage Distilling	$8.08 million	1.64	N/A	N/A	N/A
Westrock Coffee	$836.72 million	0.80	-$34.58 million	($0.86)	-8.24

Heritage Distilling has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Westrock Coffee.

Summary

Westrock Coffee beats Heritage Distilling on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Heritage Distilling

Heritage Distilling Holding Company Inc. is a craft distiller of premium brands, including whiskeys, vodkas, gins, rums and ready-to-drink canned cocktails. Heritage Distilling Holding Company Inc. is based in GIG HARBOR, Wash.

About Westrock Coffee

Westrock Coffee Company, LLC operates as an integrated coffee, tea, flavors, extracts, and ingredients solutions provider in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Beverage Solutions, and Sustainable Sourcing & Traceability (SS&T). The Beverage Solutions segment provides various packaging, including branded and private label coffee in bags, fractional packs, and single serve cups, as well as extract solutions for applications in cold brew and ready-to-drink offerings. The SS&T segment engages in delivery and settlement of forward sales contracts for green coffee. The company offers coffee sourcing, supply chain management, product development, roasting, packaging, and distribution services to the retail, food service and restaurant, convenience store and travel center, non-commercial account, CPG, and hospitality industries. Westrock Coffee Company, LLC was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.