PZC vs. W7L, MCB, ACRL, REVB, SKIN, CRL, BAR, CBX, CLAI, and BYOT
Should you be buying PZ Cussons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PZ Cussons include Warpaint London (W7L), McBride (MCB), Accrol Group (ACRL), Revolution Beauty Group (REVB), DeepVerge plc (SKIN.L) (SKIN), Creightons (CRL), Brand Architekts Group (BAR), Cellular Goods (CBX), Cel AI (CLAI), and Byotrol (BYOT). These companies are all part of the "household & personal products" industry.
PZ Cussons vs.
Warpaint London (LON:W7L) and PZ Cussons (LON:PZC) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
Warpaint London has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PZ Cussons has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Warpaint London has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PZ Cussons. PZ Cussons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Warpaint London, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
39.8% of Warpaint London shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.7% of PZ Cussons shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.5% of Warpaint London shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 43.7% of PZ Cussons shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Warpaint London has a net margin of 17.35% compared to PZ Cussons' net margin of -10.80%. Warpaint London's return on equity of 35.04% beat PZ Cussons' return on equity.
Warpaint London currently has a consensus target price of GBX 680, suggesting a potential upside of 70.43%. PZ Cussons has a consensus target price of GBX 120, suggesting a potential upside of 50.75%. Given Warpaint London's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Warpaint London is more favorable than PZ Cussons.
In the previous week, Warpaint London and Warpaint London both had 1 articles in the media. Warpaint London's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat PZ Cussons' score of -0.80 indicating that Warpaint London is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Warpaint London pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. PZ Cussons pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Warpaint London pays out 44.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PZ Cussons pays out -29.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. PZ Cussons is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
PZ Cussons received 249 more outperform votes than Warpaint London when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.65% of users gave Warpaint London an outperform vote while only 52.13% of users gave PZ Cussons an outperform vote.
Summary
Warpaint London beats PZ Cussons on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PZC) was last updated on 3/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
