CCU vs. SAM, DNUT, TR, TBBB, WLY, WLYB, ENR, KLG, HELE, and THS
Should you be buying Compañía Cervecerías Unidas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas include Boston Beer (SAM), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), BBB Foods (TBBB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), Energizer (ENR), WK Kellogg (KLG), Helen of Troy (HELE), and TreeHouse Foods (THS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (NYSE:CCU) and Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Boston Beer received 43 more outperform votes than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.43% of users gave Compañía Cervecerías Unidas an outperform vote while only 48.05% of users gave Boston Beer an outperform vote.
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has higher revenue and earnings than Boston Beer. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boston Beer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas presently has a consensus price target of $13.71, indicating a potential upside of 12.24%. Boston Beer has a consensus price target of $335.21, indicating a potential upside of 21.34%. Given Boston Beer's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Boston Beer is more favorable than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas.
In the previous week, Boston Beer had 32 more articles in the media than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Boston Beer and 5 mentions for Compañía Cervecerías Unidas. Boston Beer's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' score of 0.12 indicating that Boston Beer is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boston Beer has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Boston Beer has a net margin of 4.60% compared to Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' net margin of 3.98%. Boston Beer's return on equity of 10.11% beat Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' return on equity.
24.1% of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.1% of Boston Beer shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.4% of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.3% of Boston Beer shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Boston Beer beats Compañía Cervecerías Unidas on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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