PEP vs. KO, DEO, PM, UL, BUD, PG, MDLZ, CL, MO, and BTI
Should you be buying PepsiCo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PepsiCo include Coca-Cola (KO), Diageo (DEO), Philip Morris International (PM), Unilever (UL), Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (BUD), Procter & Gamble (PG), Mondelez International (MDLZ), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Altria Group (MO), and British American Tobacco (BTI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) and PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
Coca-Cola has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PepsiCo. Coca-Cola is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PepsiCo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Coca-Cola pays an annual dividend of $1.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. PepsiCo pays an annual dividend of $5.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Coca-Cola pays out 77.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PepsiCo pays out 76.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Coca-Cola has increased its dividend for 63 consecutive years and PepsiCo has increased its dividend for 52 consecutive years. Coca-Cola is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Coca-Cola currently has a consensus price target of $68.27, suggesting a potential upside of 9.82%. PepsiCo has a consensus price target of $187.42, suggesting a potential upside of 6.40%. Given PepsiCo's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Coca-Cola is more favorable than PepsiCo.
Coca-Cola has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PepsiCo has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Coca-Cola has a net margin of 23.41% compared to Coca-Cola's net margin of 10.00%. Coca-Cola's return on equity of 57.37% beat PepsiCo's return on equity.
70.3% of Coca-Cola shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.1% of PepsiCo shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Coca-Cola shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PepsiCo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Coca-Cola had 67 more articles in the media than PepsiCo. MarketBeat recorded 90 mentions for Coca-Cola and 23 mentions for PepsiCo. PepsiCo's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Coca-Cola's score of 0.35 indicating that Coca-Cola is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Coca-Cola received 79 more outperform votes than PepsiCo when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.25% of users gave PepsiCo an outperform vote while only 67.73% of users gave Coca-Cola an outperform vote.
Summary
Coca-Cola beats PepsiCo on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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