W7L vs. PZC, MCB, ACRL, REVB, WIL, CCEP, AEP, NICL, KITW, and MPE
Should you be buying Warpaint London stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Warpaint London include PZ Cussons (PZC), McBride (MCB), Accrol Group (ACRL), Revolution Beauty Group (REVB), Wilmington (WIL), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Anglo-Eastern Plantations (AEP), Nichols (NICL), Kitwave Group (KITW), and M.P. Evans Group (MPE). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
PZ Cussons (LON:PZC) and Warpaint London (LON:W7L) are both small-cap 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.
PZ Cussons presently has a consensus price target of GBX 146.50, indicating a potential upside of 44.14%. Warpaint London has a consensus price target of GBX 550, indicating a potential upside of 12.02%. Given Warpaint London's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe PZ Cussons is more favorable than Warpaint London.
Warpaint London has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Warpaint London has a net margin of 11.00% compared to Warpaint London's net margin of -5.65%. PZ Cussons' return on equity of 20.31% beat Warpaint London's return on equity.
PZ Cussons received 249 more outperform votes than Warpaint London when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.30% of users gave Warpaint London an outperform vote while only 51.97% of users gave PZ Cussons an outperform vote.
PZ Cussons has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Warpaint London has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
47.8% of PZ Cussons shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.5% of Warpaint London shares are owned by institutional investors. 46.0% of PZ Cussons shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 50.9% of Warpaint London 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, Warpaint London had 9 more articles in the media than PZ Cussons. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Warpaint London and 5 mentions for PZ Cussons. PZ Cussons' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Warpaint London's score of 0.82 indicating that Warpaint London is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PZ Cussons pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Warpaint London pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. PZ Cussons pays out -6,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Warpaint London pays out 7,272.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PZ Cussons is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Warpaint London beats PZ Cussons on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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