DNUT vs. EPC, WLY, WLYB, THS, TR, ARCO, ENR, MGPI, KLG, and VITL
Should you be buying Krispy Kreme stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Krispy Kreme include Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Energizer (ENR), MGP Ingredients (MGPI), WK Kellogg (KLG), and Vital Farms (VITL).
Krispy Kreme (NASDAQ:DNUT) and Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Edgewell Personal Care has higher revenue and earnings than Krispy Kreme. Krispy Kreme is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edgewell Personal Care, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Krispy Kreme has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edgewell Personal Care has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Krispy Kreme currently has a consensus price target of $16.31, suggesting a potential upside of 48.30%. Edgewell Personal Care has a consensus price target of $42.25, suggesting a potential upside of 10.03%. Given Krispy Kreme's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Krispy Kreme is more favorable than Edgewell Personal Care.
Edgewell Personal Care received 454 more outperform votes than Krispy Kreme when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.61% of users gave Edgewell Personal Care an outperform vote while only 37.14% of users gave Krispy Kreme an outperform vote.
Edgewell Personal Care has a net margin of 5.40% compared to Krispy Kreme's net margin of -2.70%. Edgewell Personal Care's return on equity of 9.29% beat Krispy Kreme's return on equity.
81.7% of Krispy Kreme shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of Krispy Kreme shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Edgewell Personal Care shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Krispy Kreme had 9 more articles in the media than Edgewell Personal Care. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Krispy Kreme and 2 mentions for Edgewell Personal Care. Edgewell Personal Care's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Krispy Kreme's score of 0.27 indicating that Edgewell Personal Care is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Krispy Kreme pays an annual dividend of $0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Edgewell Personal Care pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Krispy Kreme pays out -51.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Edgewell Personal Care pays out 25.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Edgewell Personal Care beats Krispy Kreme on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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