ENR vs. WLYB, KLG, WLY, TR, THS, CCU, DNUT, TBBB, EPC, and HELE
Should you be buying Energizer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Energizer include John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), WK Kellogg (KLG), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (CCU), Krispy Kreme (DNUT), BBB Foods (TBBB), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), and Helen of Troy (HELE). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLYB) and Energizer (NYSE:ENR) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Energizer has a consensus target price of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.68%. Given John Wiley & Sons' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Energizer is more favorable than John Wiley & Sons.
0.5% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.7% of Energizer shares are held by institutional investors. 29.7% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Energizer shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
John Wiley & Sons has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Energizer has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Energizer had 1 more articles in the media than John Wiley & Sons. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Energizer and 5 mentions for John Wiley & Sons. Energizer's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat John Wiley & Sons' score of 0.88 indicating that John Wiley & Sons is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Energizer has a net margin of 3.21% compared to Energizer's net margin of -8.14%. John Wiley & Sons' return on equity of 123.29% beat Energizer's return on equity.
Energizer has higher revenue and earnings than John Wiley & Sons. John Wiley & Sons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Energizer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Energizer received 376 more outperform votes than John Wiley & Sons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.16% of users gave Energizer an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave John Wiley & Sons an outperform vote.
John Wiley & Sons pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Energizer pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. John Wiley & Sons pays out -48.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Energizer pays out 93.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. John Wiley & Sons has increased its dividend for 25 consecutive years.
Summary
Energizer beats John Wiley & Sons on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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