WEST vs. COCO, BRCC, NAPA, WVVI, VWE, LQR, BTTR, EAST, KO, and PEP
Should you be buying Westrock Coffee stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westrock Coffee include Vita Coco (COCO), BRC (BRCC), Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA), Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVVI), Vintage Wine Estates (VWE), LQR House (LQR), Better Choice (BTTR), Eastside Distilling (EAST), Coca-Cola (KO), and PepsiCo (PEP). These companies are all part of the "beverages" industry.
Vita Coco (NASDAQ:COCO) and Westrock Coffee (NASDAQ:WEST) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.
Vita Coco has a net margin of 10.93% compared to Vita Coco's net margin of -6.33%. Westrock Coffee's return on equity of 26.27% beat Vita Coco's return on equity.
Vita Coco received 21 more outperform votes than Westrock Coffee when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Westrock Coffee an outperform vote while only 63.64% of users gave Vita Coco an outperform vote.
Vita Coco has a beta of 0.26, indicating that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westrock Coffee has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Vita Coco currently has a consensus target price of $29.67, suggesting a potential upside of 5.01%. Westrock Coffee has a consensus target price of $12.33, suggesting a potential upside of 19.28%. Given Vita Coco's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Westrock Coffee is more favorable than Vita Coco.
Vita Coco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Westrock Coffee. Westrock Coffee is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vita Coco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.5% of Vita Coco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.1% of Westrock Coffee shares are held by institutional investors. 34.2% of Vita Coco shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 42.1% of Westrock Coffee shares are held 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, Vita Coco had 6 more articles in the media than Westrock Coffee. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Vita Coco and 0 mentions for Westrock Coffee. Westrock Coffee's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Vita Coco's score of 0.00 indicating that Vita Coco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Vita Coco beats Westrock Coffee on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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