CLX vs. CELH, HRL, CAG, MKC, TSN, CPB, USFD, BF.B, TAP, and LW
Should you be buying Clorox stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clorox include Celsius (CELH), Hormel Foods (HRL), Conagra Brands (CAG), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), Tyson Foods (TSN), Campbell Soup (CPB), US Foods (USFD), Brown-Forman (BF.B), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP), and Lamb Weston (LW). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Clorox (NYSE:CLX) and Celsius (NASDAQ:CELH) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Clorox presently has a consensus price target of $146.43, indicating a potential upside of 3.44%. Celsius has a consensus price target of $84.95, indicating a potential upside of 3.51%. Given Celsius' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Celsius is more favorable than Clorox.
Celsius has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Clorox. Clorox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Celsius, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Clorox received 82 more outperform votes than Celsius when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.93% of users gave Celsius an outperform vote while only 40.02% of users gave Clorox an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Celsius had 31 more articles in the media than Clorox. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for Celsius and 23 mentions for Clorox. Clorox's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Celsius' score of 0.42 indicating that Clorox is being referred to more favorably in the media.
78.5% of Clorox shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.0% of Celsius shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Clorox shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Celsius shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Celsius has a net margin of 17.21% compared to Clorox's net margin of 3.33%. Clorox's return on equity of 302.49% beat Celsius' return on equity.
Clorox has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celsius has a beta of 1.93, meaning that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Celsius beats Clorox on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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