KITW vs. AEP, CCEP, WIL, MCB, W7L, NICL, KYGA, PZC, ACRL, and CAM
Should you be buying Kitwave Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kitwave Group include Anglo-Eastern Plantations (AEP), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Wilmington (WIL), McBride (MCB), Warpaint London (W7L), Nichols (NICL), Kerry Group (KYGA), PZ Cussons (PZC), Accrol Group (ACRL), and Camellia (CAM). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations (LON:AEP) and Kitwave Group (LON:KITW) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kitwave Group. Anglo-Eastern Plantations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kitwave Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
10.8% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of Kitwave Group shares are held by institutional investors. 71.9% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of Kitwave Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kitwave Group has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a net margin of 10.93% compared to Anglo-Eastern Plantations' net margin of 3.15%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' return on equity of 24.25% beat Kitwave Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Anglo-Eastern Plantations and Anglo-Eastern Plantations both had 1 articles in the media. Kitwave Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Anglo-Eastern Plantations'average media sentiment score.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations received 117 more outperform votes than Kitwave Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Kitwave Group an outperform vote while only 68.51% of users gave Anglo-Eastern Plantations an outperform vote.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Kitwave Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays out 3,404.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kitwave Group pays out 4,230.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Anglo-Eastern Plantations is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Kitwave Group has a consensus target price of GBX 422.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.56%. Given Anglo-Eastern Plantations' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kitwave Group is more favorable than Anglo-Eastern Plantations.
Summary
Kitwave Group beats Anglo-Eastern Plantations on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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