KITW vs. AEP, CCEP, WIL, MCB, NICL, W7L, KYGA, CAM, CARR, and ACRL
Should you be buying Kitwave Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kitwave Group include Anglo-Eastern Plantations (AEP), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Wilmington (WIL), McBride (MCB), Nichols (NICL), Warpaint London (W7L), Kerry Group (KYGA), Camellia (CAM), Carr's Group (CARR), and Accrol Group (ACRL). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations (LON:AEP) and Kitwave Group (LON:KITW) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Kitwave Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays out 3,368.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kitwave Group pays out 4,230.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Anglo-Eastern Plantations is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Kitwave Group has a consensus target price of GBX 455, indicating a potential upside of 20.53%. Given Anglo-Eastern Plantations' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kitwave Group is more favorable than Anglo-Eastern Plantations.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations received 116 more outperform votes than Kitwave Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Kitwave Group an outperform vote while only 68.51% of users gave Anglo-Eastern Plantations an outperform vote.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kitwave Group has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kitwave Group had 2 more articles in the media than Anglo-Eastern Plantations. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Kitwave Group and 0 mentions for Anglo-Eastern Plantations. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Kitwave Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Kitwave Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a net margin of 10.93% compared to Anglo-Eastern Plantations' net margin of 3.15%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' return on equity of 24.25% beat Kitwave Group's return on equity.
8.6% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.0% of Kitwave Group shares are held by institutional investors. 70.4% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.1% of Kitwave Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kitwave Group. Anglo-Eastern Plantations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kitwave Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Kitwave Group beats Anglo-Eastern Plantations on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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