PZC vs. W7L, MCB, ACRL, MPE, NICL, WIL, CCEP, AEP, KITW, and GNC
Should you be buying PZ Cussons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PZ Cussons include Warpaint London (W7L), McBride (MCB), Accrol Group (ACRL), M.P. Evans Group (MPE), Nichols (NICL), Wilmington (WIL), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Anglo-Eastern Plantations (AEP), Kitwave Group (KITW), and Greencore Group (GNC). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Warpaint London (LON:W7L) and PZ Cussons (LON:PZC) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.
31.5% of Warpaint London shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.3% of PZ Cussons shares are held by institutional investors. 50.9% of Warpaint London shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 44.6% of PZ Cussons shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Warpaint London pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. PZ Cussons pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Warpaint London pays out 7,272.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PZ Cussons pays out -6,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PZ Cussons is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Warpaint London currently has a consensus target price of GBX 550, indicating a potential upside of 19.57%. PZ Cussons has a consensus target price of GBX 146.50, indicating a potential upside of 38.73%. Given Warpaint London's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PZ Cussons is more favorable than Warpaint London.
Warpaint London has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PZ Cussons has a beta of 0.27, suggesting that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Warpaint London had 2 more articles in the media than PZ Cussons. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Warpaint London and 2 mentions for PZ Cussons. PZ Cussons' average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Warpaint London's score of 0.34 indicating that Warpaint London is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Warpaint London has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PZ Cussons. PZ Cussons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Warpaint London, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Warpaint London has a net margin of 11.00% compared to Warpaint London's net margin of -5.65%. PZ Cussons' return on equity of 20.31% beat Warpaint London's return on equity.
PZ Cussons received 249 more outperform votes than Warpaint London when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.30% of users gave Warpaint London an outperform vote while only 51.97% of users gave PZ Cussons an outperform vote.
Summary
Warpaint London beats PZ Cussons on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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