SAM vs. CCU, SMPL, WDFC, NOMD, BRFS, NWL, GO, JJSF, IPAR, and VSTS
Should you be buying Boston Beer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Boston Beer include Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (CCU), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), WD-40 (WDFC), Nomad Foods (NOMD), BRF (BRFS), Newell Brands (NWL), Grocery Outlet (GO), J&J Snack Foods (JJSF), Inter Parfums (IPAR), and Vestis (VSTS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (NYSE:CCU) and Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Boston Beer received 43 more outperform votes than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.43% of users gave Compañía Cervecerías Unidas an outperform vote while only 48.11% of users gave Boston Beer an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Boston Beer had 6 more articles in the media than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Boston Beer and 1 mentions for Compañía Cervecerías Unidas. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Boston Beer's score of 0.05 indicating that Boston Beer is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas currently has a consensus target price of $13.71, suggesting a potential upside of 15.26%. Boston Beer has a consensus target price of $334.86, suggesting a potential upside of 15.65%. Given Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Boston Beer is more favorable than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas.
24.1% of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.1% of Boston Beer shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.4% of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.0% of Boston Beer shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boston Beer has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has a net margin of 3.98% compared to Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' net margin of 3.61%. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' return on equity of 8.13% beat Boston Beer's return on equity.
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has higher revenue and earnings than Boston Beer. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boston Beer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Boston Beer beats Compañía Cervecerías Unidas on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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