EL vs. KVUE, CL, STZ, KMB, MNST, GIS, SYY, HSY, CTVA, and ABEV
Should you be buying Estée Lauder Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Estée Lauder Companies include Kenvue (KVUE), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Constellation Brands (STZ), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Monster Beverage (MNST), General Mills (GIS), Sysco (SYY), Hershey (HSY), Corteva (CTVA), and Ambev (ABEV). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Kenvue (NYSE:KVUE) and Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking and dividends.
Kenvue has a net margin of 9.87% compared to Kenvue's net margin of 3.08%. Estée Lauder Companies' return on equity of 15.62% beat Kenvue's return on equity.
In the previous week, Estée Lauder Companies had 6 more articles in the media than Kenvue. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Estée Lauder Companies and 19 mentions for Kenvue. Estée Lauder Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Kenvue's score of 0.94 indicating that Kenvue is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kenvue has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Estée Lauder Companies.
97.6% of Kenvue shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.2% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.8% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Estée Lauder Companies received 1152 more outperform votes than Kenvue when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.66% of users gave Estée Lauder Companies an outperform vote while only 46.15% of users gave Kenvue an outperform vote.
Kenvue currently has a consensus target price of $24.85, suggesting a potential upside of 26.86%. Estée Lauder Companies has a consensus target price of $168.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.96%. Given Estée Lauder Companies' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Kenvue is more favorable than Estée Lauder Companies.
Kenvue pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Estée Lauder Companies pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Estée Lauder Companies pays out 203.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Kenvue and Estée Lauder Companies tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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