COKE vs. FIZZ, PRMW, CELH, INGR, ARMK, PPC, NYT, DAR, CHWY, and POST
Should you be buying Coca-Cola Consolidated stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coca-Cola Consolidated include National Beverage (FIZZ), Primo Water (PRMW), Celsius (CELH), Ingredion (INGR), Aramark (ARMK), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), New York Times (NYT), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Chewy (CHWY), and Post (POST).
National Beverage (NASDAQ:FIZZ) and Coca-Cola Consolidated (NASDAQ:COKE) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Coca-Cola Consolidated received 19 more outperform votes than National Beverage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.73% of users gave Coca-Cola Consolidated an outperform vote while only 60.33% of users gave National Beverage an outperform vote.
National Beverage has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca-Cola Consolidated has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
National Beverage has a net margin of 14.34% compared to National Beverage's net margin of 6.14%. National Beverage's return on equity of 44.12% beat Coca-Cola Consolidated's return on equity.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has higher revenue and earnings than National Beverage. Coca-Cola Consolidated is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Beverage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
24.0% of National Beverage shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.2% of Coca-Cola Consolidated shares are held by institutional investors. 75.0% of National Beverage shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Coca-Cola Consolidated had 8 more articles in the media than National Beverage. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Coca-Cola Consolidated and 2 mentions for National Beverage. National Beverage's average media sentiment score of 0.14 beat Coca-Cola Consolidated's score of -0.01 indicating that Coca-Cola Consolidated is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Coca-Cola Consolidated beats National Beverage on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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