KVUE vs. EL, COTY, ELF, CL, ABEV, CTVA, HSY, SYY, GIS, and CCEP
Should you be buying Kenvue stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kenvue include Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Coty (COTY), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Ambev (ABEV), Corteva (CTVA), Hershey (HSY), Sysco (SYY), General Mills (GIS), and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP). 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 superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Estée Lauder Companies received 1152 more outperform votes than Kenvue when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.58% of users gave Estée Lauder Companies an outperform vote while only 46.15% of users gave Kenvue an outperform vote.
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 insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Kenvue has a net margin of 9.87% compared to Estée Lauder Companies' net margin of 3.08%. Kenvue's return on equity of 15.62% beat Estée Lauder Companies' return on equity.
Kenvue pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. 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.
Kenvue currently has a consensus target price of $24.85, indicating a potential upside of 31.74%. Estée Lauder Companies has a consensus target price of $168.17, indicating a potential upside of 14.05%. Given Kenvue's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Kenvue is more favorable than Estée Lauder Companies.
In the previous week, Estée Lauder Companies had 8 more articles in the media than Kenvue. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Estée Lauder Companies and 14 mentions for Kenvue. Estée Lauder Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Kenvue's score of 0.63 indicating that Estée Lauder Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kenvue has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Estée Lauder Companies.
Summary
Estée Lauder Companies beats Kenvue on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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