ULVR vs. RKT, DGE, BATS, PZC, W7L, MCB, ACRL, REVB, CRL, and BAR
Should you be buying Unilever stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unilever include Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT), Diageo (DGE), British American Tobacco (BATS), PZ Cussons (PZC), Warpaint London (W7L), McBride (MCB), Accrol Group (ACRL), Revolution Beauty Group (REVB), Creightons (CRL), and Brand Architekts Group (BAR). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Reckitt Benckiser Group (LON:RKT) and Unilever (LON:ULVR) are both large-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Reckitt Benckiser Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 193 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Unilever pays an annual dividend of GBX 148 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Reckitt Benckiser Group pays out 8,502.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Unilever pays out 6,727.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Unilever has higher revenue and earnings than Reckitt Benckiser Group. Unilever is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Reckitt Benckiser Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Reckitt Benckiser Group has a beta of 0.07, meaning that its share price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unilever has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Reckitt Benckiser Group has a net margin of 11.25% compared to Reckitt Benckiser Group's net margin of 10.88%. Reckitt Benckiser Group's return on equity of 33.63% beat Unilever's return on equity.
Unilever received 953 more outperform votes than Reckitt Benckiser Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 90.77% of users gave Reckitt Benckiser Group an outperform vote while only 58.16% of users gave Unilever an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Unilever had 13 more articles in the media than Reckitt Benckiser Group. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Unilever and 2 mentions for Reckitt Benckiser Group. Reckitt Benckiser Group's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Unilever's score of 0.50 indicating that Unilever is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
60.0% of Reckitt Benckiser Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.7% of Unilever shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Reckitt Benckiser Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Unilever 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.
Unilever has a consensus target price of GBX 4,320, suggesting a potential upside of 4.52%. Given Reckitt Benckiser Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Unilever is more favorable than Reckitt Benckiser Group.
Summary
Unilever beats Reckitt Benckiser Group on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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