Vita Coco (COCO) Competitors

Vita Coco (NASDAQ:COCO) and Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (NYSE:CCU) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and media sentiment.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor COCO or CCU?

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas received 299 more outperform votes than Vita Coco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.23% of users gave Compañía Cervecerías Unidas an outperform vote while only 61.40% of users gave Vita Coco an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Vita Coco	Outperform Votes 35 61.40%	Underperform Votes 22 38.60%
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	Outperform Votes 334 64.23%	Underperform Votes 186 35.77%

Which has more risk and volatility, COCO or CCU?

Vita Coco has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is COCO or CCU more profitable?

Vita Coco has a net margin of 11.99% compared to Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' net margin of 5.14%. Vita Coco's return on equity of 26.49% beat Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Vita Coco	11.99%	26.49%	18.98%
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	5.14%	7.05%	2.90%

Do analysts prefer COCO or CCU?

Vita Coco presently has a consensus target price of $35.38, suggesting a potential downside of 3.49%. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has a consensus target price of $11.03, suggesting a potential downside of 20.79%. Given Vita Coco's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Vita Coco is more favorable than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Vita Coco	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.63
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	3 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.25

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, COCO or CCU?

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has higher revenue and earnings than Vita Coco. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vita Coco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Vita Coco	$535.24M	3.89	$46.63M	$1.01	36.29
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	$2.98T	0.00	$126.78M	$0.94	14.82

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of COCO or CCU?

88.5% of Vita Coco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.1% of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.3% of Vita Coco shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas shares are owned 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.

Does the media refer more to COCO or CCU?

In the previous week, Vita Coco had 14 more articles in the media than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Vita Coco and 0 mentions for Compañía Cervecerías Unidas. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Vita Coco's score of 1.09 indicating that Compañía Cervecerías Unidas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Vita Coco	Positive
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	Positive

Summary

Vita Coco beats Compañía Cervecerías Unidas on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.