CCU vs. SAM, DNUT, TR, TBBB, WLY, WLYB, ENR, KLG, HELE, and THS
Should you be buying Compañía Cervecerías Unidas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas include Boston Beer (SAM), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), BBB Foods (TBBB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), Energizer (ENR), WK Kellogg (KLG), Helen of Troy (HELE), and TreeHouse Foods (THS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM) and Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (NYSE:CCU) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
81.1% of Boston Beer shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.1% of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.0% of Boston Beer shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has higher revenue and earnings than Boston Beer. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boston Beer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Boston Beer currently has a consensus target price of $335.21, suggesting a potential upside of 17.38%. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has a consensus target price of $13.71, suggesting a potential upside of 11.42%. Given Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Boston Beer is more favorable than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas.
Boston Beer has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Boston Beer had 30 more articles in the media than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Boston Beer and 2 mentions for Compañía Cervecerías Unidas. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Boston Beer's score of -0.20 indicating that Boston Beer is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Boston Beer has a net margin of 4.60% compared to Boston Beer's net margin of 3.98%. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' return on equity of 10.11% beat Boston Beer's return on equity.
Boston Beer received 43 more outperform votes than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.43% of users gave Compañía Cervecerías Unidas an outperform vote while only 48.05% of users gave Boston Beer an outperform vote.
Summary
Boston Beer beats Compañía Cervecerías Unidas on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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