COKE vs. FIZZ, PRMW, CELH, INGR, CHWY, PPC, NYT, DAR, ARMK, and POST
Should you be buying Coca-Cola Consolidated stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coca-Cola Consolidated include National Beverage (FIZZ), Primo Water (PRMW), Celsius (CELH), Ingredion (INGR), Chewy (CHWY), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), New York Times (NYT), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Aramark (ARMK), and Post (POST).
Coca-Cola Consolidated (NASDAQ:COKE) and National Beverage (NASDAQ:FIZZ) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and earnings.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has higher revenue and earnings than National Beverage. Coca-Cola Consolidated is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Beverage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Coca-Cola Consolidated received 19 more outperform votes than National Beverage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.73% of users gave Coca-Cola Consolidated an outperform vote while only 60.33% of users gave National Beverage an outperform vote.
39.6% of Coca-Cola Consolidated shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.1% of National Beverage shares are held by institutional investors. 75.0% of National Beverage shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
National Beverage has a net margin of 14.34% compared to Coca-Cola Consolidated's net margin of 6.14%. Coca-Cola Consolidated's return on equity of 44.12% beat National Beverage's return on equity.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Beverage has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Coca-Cola Consolidated had 9 more articles in the media than National Beverage. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Coca-Cola Consolidated and 2 mentions for National Beverage. National Beverage's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Coca-Cola Consolidated's score of 0.57 indicating that National Beverage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Coca-Cola Consolidated beats National Beverage on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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