KVUE vs. EL, CL, SYY, CTVA, ABEV, GIS, HSY, CCEP, KHC, and KMB
Should you be buying Kenvue stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kenvue include Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Sysco (SYY), Corteva (CTVA), Ambev (ABEV), General Mills (GIS), Hershey (HSY), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Kraft Heinz (KHC), and Kimberly-Clark (KMB). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Kenvue (NYSE:KVUE) and Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and earnings.
97.6% of Kenvue shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.2% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Kenvue shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are held by company 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.
Kenvue pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Estée Lauder Companies pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Kenvue pays out 102.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Estée Lauder Companies pays out 148.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kenvue is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Kenvue presently has a consensus target price of $24.38, suggesting a potential upside of 26.02%. Estée Lauder Companies has a consensus target price of $160.92, suggesting a potential upside of 27.65%. Given Estée Lauder Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Estée Lauder Companies is more favorable than Kenvue.
In the previous week, Estée Lauder Companies had 18 more articles in the media than Kenvue. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Estée Lauder Companies and 7 mentions for Kenvue. Kenvue's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Estée Lauder Companies' score of 0.84 indicating that Kenvue is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kenvue has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Estée Lauder Companies. Kenvue is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Estée Lauder Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kenvue has a net margin of 9.63% compared to Estée Lauder Companies' net margin of 4.18%. Kenvue's return on equity of 21.06% beat Estée Lauder Companies' return on equity.
Estée Lauder Companies received 1153 more outperform votes than Kenvue when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.30% of users gave Estée Lauder Companies an outperform vote while only 44.44% of users gave Kenvue an outperform vote.
Summary
Estée Lauder Companies beats Kenvue on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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