CELH vs. COKE, FIZZ, CCEP, USFD, COTY, SCI, DAR, ARMK, ACI, and INGR
Should you be buying Celsius stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celsius include Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), National Beverage (FIZZ), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), US Foods (USFD), Coty (COTY), Service Co. International (SCI), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Aramark (ARMK), Albertsons Companies (ACI), and Ingredion (INGR). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Celsius vs.
Coca-Cola Consolidated (NASDAQ:COKE) and Celsius (NASDAQ:CELH) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has a net margin of 7.14% compared to Celsius' net margin of -19.58%. Coca-Cola Consolidated's return on equity of 49.66% beat Celsius' return on equity.
Celsius has a consensus price target of $131.78, indicating a potential downside of 1.13%. Given Celsius' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Celsius is more favorable than Coca-Cola Consolidated.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has higher revenue and earnings than Celsius. Celsius is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coca-Cola Consolidated, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Coca-Cola Consolidated received 24 more outperform votes than Celsius when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.74% of users gave Celsius an outperform vote while only 62.21% of users gave Coca-Cola Consolidated an outperform vote.
36.3% of Coca-Cola Consolidated shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.5% of Celsius shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Celsius shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celsius has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Celsius had 2 more articles in the media than Coca-Cola Consolidated. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Celsius and 9 mentions for Coca-Cola Consolidated. Celsius' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Coca-Cola Consolidated's score of 0.15 indicating that Celsius is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Celsius beats Coca-Cola Consolidated on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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