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AVO vs UVV
Side-by-side comparison of Mission Produce Inc. (AVO) and Universal Corporation (UVV): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- AVO operates in Consumer Staples, while UVV operates in Industrials - the two are in different parts of the market.
- UVV is the larger of the two at $1.34B, about 1.9x AVO ($724.0M).
- Over the past year, AVO is down 11.2% and UVV is down 11.7% - AVO leads by 0.5 points.
- UVV has been more active in the news (20 items in the past 4 weeks vs 9 for AVO).
- AVO has more recent analyst coverage (5 ratings vs 0 for UVV).
- Company
- Mission Produce Inc.
- Universal Corporation
- Price
- $10.21-3.68%
- $53.76+1.70%
- Market cap
- $724.0M
- $1.34B
- 1M return
- -24.95%
- -0.33%
- 1Y return
- -11.22%
- -11.72%
- Industry
- Farming/Seeds/Milling
- Farming/Seeds/Milling
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NYSE
- IPO
- 2020
- News (4w)
- 9
- 20
- Recent ratings
- 5
- 0
Mission Produce Inc.
Mission Produce, Inc. engages in sourcing, producing, and distributing avocados in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Marketing and Distribution, and International Farming. It serves retail, wholesale, and foodservice customers. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Oxnard, California.
Universal Corporation
Universal Corporation processes and supplies leaf tobacco and plant-based ingredients worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Tobacco Operations and Ingredients Operations. It is involved in procuring, financing, processing, packing, storing, and shipping leaf tobacco for sale to manufacturers of consumer tobacco products. The company contracts, purchases, processes, and sells flue-cured, burley, and oriental tobaccos that are primarily used in the manufacture of cigarettes; and dark air-cured tobaccos principally used in the manufacture of cigars, natural wrapped cigars and cigarillos, smokeless, and pipe tobacco products. It also provides value-added services, including blending, chemical, and physical testing of tobacco; service cutting for various manufacturers; manufacturing reconstituted leaf tobacco; just-in-time inventory management services; electronic nicotine delivery systems; and smoke testing services for customers. In addition, the company offers testing services for crop protection agents and tobacco constituents in seed, leaf, and finished products, including e-cigarette liquids and vapors; and analytical services that include chemical compound testing in finished tobacco products and mainstream smoke. Further, it provides a various value-added manufacturing processes to produce specialty vegetable and fruit-based ingredients for the food and beverage end markets, as well as provides water pipe style leaf tobacco; and recycles waste materials from tobacco production. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.
Latest AVO
- Large owner Globalharvest Holdings Venture Ltd acquired 549,360 shares, increasing direct ownership by 5% to 10,540,937 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Holmgren Kathleen M was granted 33,824 shares (SEC Form 4)
- New insider Holmgren Kathleen M claimed no ownership of stock in the company (SEC Form 3)
- Mission Produce Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets, Leadership Update, Regulation FD Disclosure, Financial Statements and Exhibits
- Mission Produce® Completes Acquisition of Calavo Growers, Advancing its North American Avocado & Fresh Produce Platform
- Mission Produce® to Release Fiscal Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results on Monday, June 8, 2026
- SEC Form 425 filed by Mission Produce Inc.
- SEC Form 8-K filed by Mission Produce Inc.
- Mission Produce and Calavo Growers Merger Obtains Mexican Antitrust Approval
- SEC Form 425 filed by Mission Produce Inc.
Latest UVV
- VP & Controller Bleicher Scott J was granted 3,770 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 673 shares, increasing direct ownership by 18% to 20,169 units (SEC Form 4) (tax liability)
- Chief Human Resources Officer Santos Godoi Tatiana was granted 2,515 shares, increasing direct ownership by 127% to 4,492 units (SEC Form 4)
- Senior VP & Sales Director Starke Mckeen was granted 4,081 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 484 shares, increasing direct ownership by 47% to 11,200 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax
- VP, Ingredients O'Keefe John Patrick was granted 6,993 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 1,366 shares, increasing direct ownership by 35% to 21,665 units (SEC Form 4) (withholding tax)
- VP, Gen. Counsel & Secretary Claiborne Catherine H was granted 10,393 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 1,041 shares, increasing direct ownership by 33% to 37,593 units (SEC Form 4) to cover withholding tax
- Senior VP & CFO Diel Steven S. covered exercise/tax liability with 183 shares and was granted 5,778 shares, increasing direct ownership by 19% to 35,172 units (SEC Form 4) (withholding obligation)
- Senior VP & COO Hentschke Airton L covered exercise/tax liability with 4,276 shares and was granted 20,246 shares, increasing direct ownership by 12% to 144,163 units (SEC Form 4) (for tax liability)
- Chairman, President & CEO Wigner Preston Douglas was granted 25,326 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 2,001 shares, increasing direct ownership by 22% to 127,253 units (SEC Form 4) (withholding tax)
- Senior VP & COO Hentschke Airton L covered exercise/tax liability with 9,485 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 7% to 128,193 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding obligation
- Chairman, President & CEO Wigner Preston Douglas covered exercise/tax liability with 2,461 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 103,928 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax