TAP vs. CAG, CPB, USFD, LW, SJM, ACI, CELH, COTY, CLX, and ELF
Should you be buying Molson Coors Beverage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Molson Coors Beverage include Conagra Brands (CAG), Campbell Soup (CPB), US Foods (USFD), Lamb Weston (LW), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Celsius (CELH), Coty (COTY), Clorox (CLX), and e.l.f. Beauty (ELF). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Conagra Brands (NYSE:CAG) and Molson Coors Beverage (NYSE:TAP) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Conagra Brands pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Molson Coors Beverage pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Conagra Brands pays out 70.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Molson Coors Beverage pays out 40.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Conagra Brands has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Molson Coors Beverage has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Conagra Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Conagra Brands received 113 more outperform votes than Molson Coors Beverage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.96% of users gave Conagra Brands an outperform vote while only 58.27% of users gave Molson Coors Beverage an outperform vote.
83.8% of Conagra Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.5% of Molson Coors Beverage shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Conagra Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Molson Coors Beverage shares are held by 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.
Molson Coors Beverage has higher revenue and earnings than Conagra Brands. Molson Coors Beverage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conagra Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Conagra Brands presently has a consensus price target of $33.14, indicating a potential upside of 9.71%. Molson Coors Beverage has a consensus price target of $68.73, indicating a potential upside of 8.17%. Given Molson Coors Beverage's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Conagra Brands is more favorable than Molson Coors Beverage.
In the previous week, Molson Coors Beverage had 1 more articles in the media than Conagra Brands. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Molson Coors Beverage and 16 mentions for Conagra Brands. Molson Coors Beverage's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Conagra Brands' score of 0.57 indicating that Conagra Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Conagra Brands has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Molson Coors Beverage has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Conagra Brands has a net margin of 7.86% compared to Conagra Brands' net margin of 6.83%. Molson Coors Beverage's return on equity of 14.25% beat Conagra Brands' return on equity.
Summary
Conagra Brands beats Molson Coors Beverage on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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