PRMW vs. COKE, FIZZ, ZVIA, REED, KOF, FMX, MNST, CCEP, CELH, and AES
Should you be buying Primo Water stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Primo Water include Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), National Beverage (FIZZ), Zevia PBC (ZVIA), Reed's (REED), Coca-Cola FEMSA (KOF), Fomento Económico Mexicano (FMX), Monster Beverage (MNST), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Celsius (CELH), and AES (AES).
Primo Water (NYSE:PRMW) and Coca-Cola Consolidated (NASDAQ:COKE) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Primo Water has a net margin of 12.22% compared to Coca-Cola Consolidated's net margin of 6.83%. Coca-Cola Consolidated's return on equity of 42.10% beat Primo Water's return on equity.
Primo Water currently has a consensus price target of $22.50, indicating a potential downside of 1.83%. Given Primo Water's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Primo Water is more favorable than Coca-Cola Consolidated.
In the previous week, Primo Water had 1 more articles in the media than Coca-Cola Consolidated. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Primo Water and 3 mentions for Coca-Cola Consolidated. Coca-Cola Consolidated's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Primo Water's score of 1.09 indicating that Coca-Cola Consolidated is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Primo Water pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Coca-Cola Consolidated pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Primo Water pays out 22.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Coca-Cola Consolidated pays out 4.1% 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.
Primo Water has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca-Cola Consolidated has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
87.7% of Primo Water shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.2% of Coca-Cola Consolidated shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Primo Water shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Coca-Cola Consolidated received 233 more outperform votes than Primo Water when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.90% of users gave Coca-Cola Consolidated an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Primo Water an outperform vote.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has higher revenue and earnings than Primo Water. Primo Water is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coca-Cola Consolidated, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Coca-Cola Consolidated beats Primo Water on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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