EL vs. KVUE, MNST, STZ, KHC, KMB, KDP, BTI, GIS, CTVA, and SYY
Should you be buying Estée Lauder Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Estée Lauder Companies include Kenvue (KVUE), Monster Beverage (MNST), Constellation Brands (STZ), Kraft Heinz (KHC), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), British American Tobacco (BTI), General Mills (GIS), Corteva (CTVA), and Sysco (SYY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) and Kenvue (NYSE:KVUE) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
55.2% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.6% of Kenvue shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.8% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Estée Lauder Companies presently has a consensus target price of $168.17, indicating a potential upside of 14.05%. Kenvue has a consensus target price of $24.85, indicating a potential upside of 31.74%. Given Kenvue's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kenvue is more favorable than Estée Lauder Companies.
Estée Lauder Companies pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Kenvue pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Estée Lauder Companies pays out 203.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Kenvue has a net margin of 9.87% compared to Estée Lauder Companies' net margin of 3.08%. Kenvue's return on equity of 15.62% beat Estée Lauder Companies' return on equity.
In the previous week, Estée Lauder Companies had 10 more articles in the media than Kenvue. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Estée Lauder Companies and 13 mentions for Kenvue. Estée Lauder Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Kenvue's score of 0.73 indicating that Estée Lauder Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kenvue has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Estée Lauder Companies.
Estée Lauder Companies received 1152 more outperform votes than Kenvue when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.58% of users gave Estée Lauder Companies an outperform vote while only 46.15% of users gave Kenvue an outperform vote.
Summary
Estée Lauder Companies beats Kenvue on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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