KO vs. PEP, MNST, COKE, FIZZ, DEO, STZ, KDP, ABEV, BF.B, and COCO
Should you be buying Coca-Cola stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coca-Cola include PepsiCo (PEP), Monster Beverage (MNST), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), National Beverage (FIZZ), Diageo (DEO), Constellation Brands (STZ), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Ambev (ABEV), Brown-Forman (BF.B), and Vita Coco (COCO). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) and Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Coca-Cola has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PepsiCo. PepsiCo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coca-Cola, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Coca-Cola had 39 more articles in the media than PepsiCo. MarketBeat recorded 81 mentions for Coca-Cola and 42 mentions for PepsiCo. PepsiCo's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Coca-Cola's score of 0.34 indicating that Coca-Cola is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
73.1% of PepsiCo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Coca-Cola shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of PepsiCo shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Coca-Cola shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
PepsiCo has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca-Cola has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Coca-Cola received 83 more outperform votes than PepsiCo when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.15% of users gave PepsiCo an outperform vote while only 67.75% of users gave Coca-Cola an outperform vote.
PepsiCo pays an annual dividend of $5.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Coca-Cola pays an annual dividend of $1.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. PepsiCo pays out 78.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Coca-Cola pays out 77.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PepsiCo has increased its dividend for 53 consecutive years and Coca-Cola has increased its dividend for 63 consecutive years.
PepsiCo currently has a consensus target price of $185.53, indicating a potential upside of 7.40%. Coca-Cola has a consensus target price of $70.25, indicating a potential upside of 4.77%. Given Coca-Cola's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe PepsiCo is more favorable than Coca-Cola.
Coca-Cola has a net margin of 22.92% compared to Coca-Cola's net margin of 10.34%. Coca-Cola's return on equity of 57.37% beat PepsiCo's return on equity.
Summary
Coca-Cola beats PepsiCo on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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