BVIC vs. FEVR, BAG, CWK, TATE, GRG, OCDO, PFD, HFG, BAKK, and CCR
Should you be buying Britvic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Britvic include Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), A.G. BARR (BAG), Cranswick (CWK), Tate & Lyle (TATE), Greggs (GRG), Ocado Group (OCDO), Premier Foods (PFD), Hilton Food Group (HFG), Bakkavor Group (BAKK), and C&C Group (CCR). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Fevertree Drinks (LON:FEVR) and Britvic (LON:BVIC) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Fevertree Drinks presently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,420, indicating a potential upside of 27.93%. Britvic has a consensus price target of GBX 953.33, indicating a potential upside of 7.90%. Given Britvic's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Fevertree Drinks is more favorable than Britvic.
Britvic has higher revenue and earnings than Fevertree Drinks. Britvic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fevertree Drinks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Britvic received 304 more outperform votes than Fevertree Drinks when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.46% of users gave Fevertree Drinks an outperform vote while only 69.36% of users gave Britvic an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Fevertree Drinks and Fevertree Drinks both had 4 articles in the media. Fevertree Drinks' average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Britvic's score of 0.25 indicating that Britvic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
72.5% of Fevertree Drinks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of Britvic shares are held by institutional investors. 11.0% of Fevertree Drinks shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Britvic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Fevertree Drinks pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Britvic pays an annual dividend of GBX 31 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Fevertree Drinks pays out 13,076.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Britvic pays out 6,458.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Britvic is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Britvic has a net margin of 7.09% compared to Britvic's net margin of 4.23%. Fevertree Drinks' return on equity of 28.19% beat Britvic's return on equity.
Fevertree Drinks has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Britvic has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Britvic beats Fevertree Drinks on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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