NICL vs. CCEP, BAG, FEVR, PZC, W7L, WIL, AEP, MPE, KITW, and MCB
Should you be buying Nichols stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nichols include Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), A.G. BARR (BAG), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), PZ Cussons (PZC), Warpaint London (W7L), Wilmington (WIL), Anglo-Eastern Plantations (AEP), M.P. Evans Group (MPE), Kitwave Group (KITW), and McBride (MCB). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (LON:CCEP) and Nichols (LON:NICL) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
35.2% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.3% of Nichols shares are held by institutional investors. 55.5% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.1% of Nichols shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nichols has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nichols received 180 more outperform votes than Coca-Cola Europacific Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Coca-Cola Europacific Partners an outperform vote while only 61.95% of users gave Nichols an outperform vote.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners pays an annual dividend of GBX 184 per share and has a dividend yield of 278.8%. Nichols pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners pays out 5,068.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Nichols pays out 5,600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Nichols had 8 more articles in the media than Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Nichols and 4 mentions for Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Nichols' score of 0.00 indicating that Nichols is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nichols has a net margin of 10.75% compared to Nichols' net margin of 9.12%. Nichols' return on equity of 21.64% beat Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' return on equity.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Nichols. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nichols, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners beats Nichols on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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