BNZL vs. KITW, BSD, RKT, TSCO, IMB, ABF, CCH, SBRY, BME, and BVIC
Should you be buying Bunzl stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bunzl include Kitwave Group (KITW), B.S.D Crown (BSD), Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT), Tesco (TSCO), Imperial Brands (IMB), Associated British Foods (ABF), Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), J Sainsbury (SBRY), B&M European Value Retail (BME), and Britvic (BVIC). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Kitwave Group (LON:KITW) and Bunzl (LON:BNZL) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Kitwave Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 455, indicating a potential upside of 41.30%. Bunzl has a consensus price target of GBX 3,182.50, indicating a potential downside of 11.84%. Given Kitwave Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Kitwave Group is more favorable than Bunzl.
Bunzl has higher revenue and earnings than Kitwave Group. Kitwave Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bunzl, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bunzl has a net margin of 4.20% compared to Kitwave Group's net margin of 2.83%. Kitwave Group's return on equity of 22.24% beat Bunzl's return on equity.
Bunzl received 472 more outperform votes than Kitwave Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Kitwave Group an outperform vote while only 59.88% of users gave Bunzl an outperform vote.
Kitwave Group has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bunzl has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
63.2% of Kitwave Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.2% of Bunzl shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.2% of Kitwave Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Bunzl shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, Kitwave Group had 2 more articles in the media than Bunzl. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Kitwave Group and 6 mentions for Bunzl. Kitwave Group's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Bunzl's score of 0.04 indicating that Kitwave Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kitwave Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Bunzl pays an annual dividend of GBX 70 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Kitwave Group pays out 4,583.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bunzl pays out 4,827.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kitwave Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Kitwave Group beats Bunzl on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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