REED vs. KOF, FMX, MNST, CCEP, CELH, COKE, FIZZ, PRMW, ZVIA, and LOCL
Should you be buying Reed's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Reed's include Coca-Cola FEMSA (KOF), Fomento Económico Mexicano (FMX), Monster Beverage (MNST), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Celsius (CELH), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), National Beverage (FIZZ), Primo Water (PRMW), Zevia PBC (ZVIA), and Local Bounti (LOCL).
Coca-Cola FEMSA (NYSE:KOF) and Reed's (NYSE:REED) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Coca-Cola FEMSA received 352 more outperform votes than Reed's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.57% of users gave Coca-Cola FEMSA an outperform vote while only 1.54% of users gave Reed's an outperform vote.
51.5% of Reed's shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Coca-Cola FEMSA shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 46.7% of Reed's shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Coca-Cola FEMSA has a net margin of 8.15% compared to Coca-Cola FEMSA's net margin of -29.75%. Reed's' return on equity of 15.96% beat Coca-Cola FEMSA's return on equity.
Coca-Cola FEMSA currently has a consensus target price of $100.75, suggesting a potential upside of 7.57%. Reed's has a consensus target price of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 338.87%. Given Coca-Cola FEMSA's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Reed's is more favorable than Coca-Cola FEMSA.
In the previous week, Reed's had 3 more articles in the media than Coca-Cola FEMSA. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Reed's and 1 mentions for Coca-Cola FEMSA. Reed's' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Coca-Cola FEMSA'saverage media sentiment score.
Coca-Cola FEMSA has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Reed's has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Coca-Cola FEMSA has higher revenue and earnings than Reed's. Reed's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coca-Cola FEMSA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Coca-Cola FEMSA beats Reed's on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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