CL vs. EL, KVUE, MO, DEO, BTI, MNST, MDLZ, BUD, KHC, and STZ
Should you be buying Colgate-Palmolive stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Colgate-Palmolive include Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Kenvue (KVUE), Altria Group (MO), Diageo (DEO), British American Tobacco (BTI), Monster Beverage (MNST), Mondelez International (MDLZ), Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (BUD), Kraft Heinz (KHC), and Constellation Brands (STZ). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) and Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Colgate-Palmolive has higher revenue and earnings than Estée Lauder Companies. Colgate-Palmolive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Estée Lauder Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Colgate-Palmolive pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Estée Lauder Companies pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Colgate-Palmolive pays out 63.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Estée Lauder Companies pays out 148.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Colgate-Palmolive is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Estée Lauder Companies had 47 more articles in the media than Colgate-Palmolive. MarketBeat recorded 66 mentions for Estée Lauder Companies and 19 mentions for Colgate-Palmolive. Colgate-Palmolive's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Estée Lauder Companies' score of 0.49 indicating that Colgate-Palmolive is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Estée Lauder Companies received 637 more outperform votes than Colgate-Palmolive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.30% of users gave Estée Lauder Companies an outperform vote while only 50.24% of users gave Colgate-Palmolive an outperform vote.
Colgate-Palmolive has a net margin of 13.22% compared to Estée Lauder Companies' net margin of 4.18%. Colgate-Palmolive's return on equity of 485.40% beat Estée Lauder Companies' return on equity.
80.4% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.2% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Colgate-Palmolive currently has a consensus price target of $91.44, indicating a potential downside of 1.87%. Estée Lauder Companies has a consensus price target of $160.92, indicating a potential upside of 23.66%. Given Estée Lauder Companies' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Estée Lauder Companies is more favorable than Colgate-Palmolive.
Colgate-Palmolive has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Estée Lauder Companies has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Colgate-Palmolive beats Estée Lauder Companies on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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