BNZL vs. CCH, SBRY, BME, IMB, OCDO, GRG, TATE, ABF, TSCO, and RKT
Should you be buying Bunzl stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bunzl include Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), J Sainsbury (SBRY), B&M European Value Retail (BME), Imperial Brands (IMB), Ocado Group (OCDO), Greggs (GRG), Tate & Lyle (TATE), Associated British Foods (ABF), Tesco (TSCO), and Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Coca-Cola HBC (LON:CCH) and Bunzl (LON:BNZL) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Coca-Cola HBC pays an annual dividend of GBX 67 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Bunzl pays an annual dividend of GBX 68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Coca-Cola HBC pays out 4,527.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bunzl pays out 4,415.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Coca-Cola HBC has a net margin of 6.25% compared to Coca-Cola HBC's net margin of 4.46%. Bunzl's return on equity of 19.34% beat Coca-Cola HBC's return on equity.
Bunzl received 103 more outperform votes than Coca-Cola HBC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.65% of users gave Coca-Cola HBC an outperform vote while only 60.10% of users gave Bunzl an outperform vote.
27.2% of Coca-Cola HBC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of Bunzl shares are held by institutional investors. 47.2% of Coca-Cola HBC shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Bunzl shares are held by company 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.
Coca-Cola HBC has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bunzl. Coca-Cola HBC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bunzl, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Coca-Cola HBC had 8 more articles in the media than Bunzl. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Coca-Cola HBC and 2 mentions for Bunzl. Bunzl's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Coca-Cola HBC's score of -0.15 indicating that Coca-Cola HBC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Coca-Cola HBC currently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,860, suggesting a potential upside of 8.83%. Bunzl has a consensus target price of GBX 2,916.67, suggesting a potential downside of 5.85%. Given Bunzl's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Coca-Cola HBC is more favorable than Bunzl.
Coca-Cola HBC has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bunzl has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Coca-Cola HBC beats Bunzl on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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