Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (CCU) Competitors

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

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 rate COCO or CCU?

Vita Coco presently has a consensus price target of $35.88, suggesting a potential upside of 7.86%. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has a consensus price target of $9.70, suggesting a potential downside of 26.45%. Given Vita Coco's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities 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	2 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.33

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, 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	3.53	$46.63M	$1.01	32.93
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	$2.98T	0.00	$126.78M	$0.94	14.03

Does the MarketBeat Community favor COCO or CCU?

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas received 297 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 61.67% of users gave Vita Coco an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Vita Coco	Outperform Votes 37 61.67%	Underperform Votes 23 38.33%
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	Outperform Votes 334 64.23%	Underperform Votes 186 35.77%

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

88.5% of Vita Coco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.1% of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas shares are held by institutional investors. 32.3% of Vita Coco shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk and volatility, COCO or CCU?

Vita Coco has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer COCO or CCU?

In the previous week, Compañía Cervecerías Unidas had 1 more articles in the media than Vita Coco. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Compañía Cervecerías Unidas and 4 mentions for Vita Coco. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Vita Coco's score of 0.25 indicating that Compañía Cervecerías Unidas is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Vita Coco	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	3 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Vita Coco beats Compañía Cervecerías Unidas on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.