KMB vs. CL, CHD, CLX, WDFC, SPB, CENTA, ODC, PG, AVY, and PACK
Should you be buying Kimberly-Clark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kimberly-Clark include Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Church & Dwight (CHD), Clorox (CLX), WD-40 (WDFC), Spectrum Brands (SPB), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Oil-Dri Co. of America (ODC), Procter & Gamble (PG), Avery Dennison (AVY), and Ranpak (PACK).
Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) and Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KMB) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Kimberly-Clark received 4 more outperform votes than Colgate-Palmolive when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.42% of users gave Colgate-Palmolive an outperform vote while only 50.09% of users gave Kimberly-Clark an outperform vote.
Colgate-Palmolive has a net margin of 14.21% compared to Kimberly-Clark's net margin of 11.28%. Colgate-Palmolive's return on equity of 470.19% beat Kimberly-Clark's return on equity.
80.4% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of Kimberly-Clark shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Kimberly-Clark shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Colgate-Palmolive presently has a consensus price target of $102.63, suggesting a potential downside of 3.78%. Kimberly-Clark has a consensus price target of $145.67, suggesting a potential downside of 0.40%. Given Kimberly-Clark's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kimberly-Clark is more favorable than Colgate-Palmolive.
In the previous week, Colgate-Palmolive had 5 more articles in the media than Kimberly-Clark. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Colgate-Palmolive and 10 mentions for Kimberly-Clark. Kimberly-Clark's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Colgate-Palmolive's score of 0.76 indicating that Kimberly-Clark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Colgate-Palmolive has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kimberly-Clark. Kimberly-Clark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Colgate-Palmolive, 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 1.9%. Kimberly-Clark pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Colgate-Palmolive pays out 63.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kimberly-Clark pays out 89.7% 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 has raised its dividend for 62 consecutive years and Kimberly-Clark has raised its dividend for 53 consecutive years.
Colgate-Palmolive has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kimberly-Clark has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Colgate-Palmolive beats Kimberly-Clark on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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