KMB vs. ADM, KHC, HSY, KVUE, ABEV, STZ, EL, KDP, GIS, and SYY
Should you be buying Kimberly-Clark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kimberly-Clark include Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Kraft Heinz (KHC), Hershey (HSY), Kenvue (KVUE), Ambev (ABEV), Constellation Brands (STZ), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), General Mills (GIS), and Sysco (SYY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KMB) and Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership and earnings.
Archer-Daniels-Midland received 120 more outperform votes than Kimberly-Clark when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.94% of users gave Archer-Daniels-Midland an outperform vote while only 50.38% of users gave Kimberly-Clark an outperform vote.
Kimberly-Clark presently has a consensus price target of $131.93, indicating a potential upside of 6.36%. Archer-Daniels-Midland has a consensus price target of $92.90, indicating a potential upside of 23.75%. Given Archer-Daniels-Midland's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Archer-Daniels-Midland is more favorable than Kimberly-Clark.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has higher revenue and earnings than Kimberly-Clark. Archer-Daniels-Midland is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kimberly-Clark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kimberly-Clark and Kimberly-Clark both had 10 articles in the media. Kimberly-Clark's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Archer-Daniels-Midland's score of 0.86 indicating that Kimberly-Clark is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kimberly-Clark pays an annual dividend of $4.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Archer-Daniels-Midland pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Kimberly-Clark pays out 90.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Archer-Daniels-Midland pays out 25.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Kimberly-Clark has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Archer-Daniels-Midland has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
74.4% of Kimberly-Clark shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.7% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Kimberly-Clark shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kimberly-Clark has a net margin of 8.63% compared to Archer-Daniels-Midland's net margin of 4.05%. Kimberly-Clark's return on equity of 292.92% beat Archer-Daniels-Midland's return on equity.
Summary
Archer-Daniels-Midland beats Kimberly-Clark on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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