W7L vs. PZC, MCB, ACRL, NICL, WIL, CCEP, MPE, AEP, KITW, and KYGA
Should you be buying Warpaint London stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Warpaint London include PZ Cussons (PZC), McBride (MCB), Accrol Group (ACRL), Nichols (NICL), Wilmington (WIL), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), M.P. Evans Group (MPE), Anglo-Eastern Plantations (AEP), Kitwave Group (KITW), and Kerry Group (KYGA). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
PZ Cussons (LON:PZC) and Warpaint London (LON:W7L) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Warpaint London has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PZ Cussons. PZ Cussons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Warpaint London, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PZ Cussons presently has a consensus target price of GBX 146.50, indicating a potential upside of 38.73%. Warpaint London has a consensus target price of GBX 550, indicating a potential upside of 19.57%. Given Warpaint London's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe PZ Cussons is more favorable than Warpaint London.
In the previous week, Warpaint London had 2 more articles in the media than PZ Cussons. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Warpaint London and 2 mentions for PZ Cussons. PZ Cussons' average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Warpaint London's score of 0.34 indicating that Warpaint London is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PZ Cussons received 249 more outperform votes than Warpaint London when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.30% of users gave Warpaint London an outperform vote while only 51.97% of users gave PZ Cussons an outperform vote.
PZ Cussons has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Warpaint London has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Warpaint London has a net margin of 11.00% compared to Warpaint London's net margin of -5.65%. PZ Cussons' return on equity of 20.31% beat Warpaint London's return on equity.
48.3% of PZ Cussons shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.5% of Warpaint London shares are owned by institutional investors. 44.6% of PZ Cussons shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 50.9% of Warpaint London shares are owned 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.
PZ Cussons pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Warpaint London pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. PZ Cussons pays out -6,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Warpaint London pays out 7,272.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PZ Cussons is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Warpaint London beats PZ Cussons on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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