MNST vs. SBUX, COKE, FIZZ, KO, PEP, FMX, CCEP, CELH, PRMW, and ZVIA
Should you be buying Monster Beverage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Monster Beverage include Starbucks (SBUX), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), National Beverage (FIZZ), Coca-Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP), Fomento Económico Mexicano (FMX), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Celsius (CELH), Primo Water (PRMW), and Zevia PBC (ZVIA).
Monster Beverage (NASDAQ:MNST) and Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
Monster Beverage currently has a consensus price target of $59.33, indicating a potential upside of 16.34%. Starbucks has a consensus price target of $91.71, indicating a potential upside of 23.85%. Given Starbucks' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Starbucks is more favorable than Monster Beverage.
In the previous week, Starbucks had 38 more articles in the media than Monster Beverage. MarketBeat recorded 53 mentions for Starbucks and 15 mentions for Monster Beverage. Monster Beverage's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Starbucks' score of 0.28 indicating that Monster Beverage is being referred to more favorably in the media.
72.4% of Monster Beverage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.3% of Starbucks shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of Monster Beverage shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Starbucks shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Monster Beverage has a net margin of 22.83% compared to Starbucks' net margin of 11.38%. Monster Beverage's return on equity of 20.74% beat Starbucks' return on equity.
Starbucks received 1137 more outperform votes than Monster Beverage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.56% of users gave Starbucks an outperform vote while only 72.01% of users gave Monster Beverage an outperform vote.
Monster Beverage has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Starbucks has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Starbucks has higher revenue and earnings than Monster Beverage. Starbucks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Monster Beverage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Monster Beverage beats Starbucks on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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