KVUE vs. CL, EL, HLN, ELF, COTY, NTCOY, IPAR, ODD, EPC, and OLPX
Should you be buying Kenvue stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kenvue include Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Haleon (HLN), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Coty (COTY), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Oddity Tech (ODD), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), and Olaplex (OLPX). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
Kenvue (NYSE:KVUE) and Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Colgate-Palmolive received 518 more outperform votes than Kenvue when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.33% of users gave Colgate-Palmolive an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Kenvue an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Colgate-Palmolive had 2 more articles in the media than Kenvue. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Colgate-Palmolive and 7 mentions for Kenvue. Kenvue's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Colgate-Palmolive's score of 1.10 indicating that Kenvue is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.6% of Kenvue shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Kenvue shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Colgate-Palmolive has higher revenue and earnings than Kenvue. Kenvue is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Colgate-Palmolive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kenvue pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Colgate-Palmolive pays an annual dividend of $2.00 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. Colgate-Palmolive pays out 63.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Colgate-Palmolive has a net margin of 13.22% compared to Kenvue's net margin of 9.63%. Colgate-Palmolive's return on equity of 485.40% beat Kenvue's return on equity.
Kenvue presently has a consensus target price of $23.09, suggesting a potential upside of 25.56%. Colgate-Palmolive has a consensus target price of $92.94, suggesting a potential downside of 1.01%. Given Kenvue's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kenvue is more favorable than Colgate-Palmolive.
Summary
Colgate-Palmolive beats Kenvue on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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