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Should you be buying Diageo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diageo include Chapel Down Group (CDGP), Artisanal Spirits (ART), Virgin Wines UK (VINO), Distil (DIS), East Imperial (EISB), Gusbourne (GUS), Unilever (ULVR), British American Tobacco (BATS), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), and Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Diageo vs. Its Competitors
Chapel Down Group (LON:CDGP) and Diageo (LON:DGE) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Diageo has a net margin of 19.33% compared to Chapel Down Group's net margin of 6.29%. Diageo's return on equity of 50.44% beat Chapel Down Group's return on equity.
Diageo received 1351 more outperform votes than Chapel Down Group when rated by MarketBeat users.
Diageo has a consensus price target of GBX 2,665.33, suggesting a potential upside of 36.68%. Given Diageo's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Diageo is more favorable than Chapel Down Group.
Diageo has higher revenue and earnings than Chapel Down Group. Diageo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chapel Down Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
15.1% of Chapel Down Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.0% of Diageo shares are held by institutional investors. 61.8% of Chapel Down Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Diageo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chapel Down Group has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diageo has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Diageo had 13 more articles in the media than Chapel Down Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Diageo and 0 mentions for Chapel Down Group. Diageo's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Chapel Down Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Diageo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Diageo beats Chapel Down Group on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:DGE) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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