KMB vs. KHC, STZ, KDP, GIS, CTVA, SYY, EL, HSY, KVUE, and ABEV
Should you be buying Kimberly-Clark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kimberly-Clark include Kraft Heinz (KHC), Constellation Brands (STZ), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), General Mills (GIS), Corteva (CTVA), Sysco (SYY), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Hershey (HSY), Kenvue (KVUE), and Ambev (ABEV). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ:KHC) and Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KMB) 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 valuation, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
78.2% of Kraft Heinz shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of Kimberly-Clark shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Kraft Heinz shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Kimberly-Clark shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kraft Heinz currently has a consensus target price of $40.57, indicating a potential upside of 6.32%. Kimberly-Clark has a consensus target price of $134.85, indicating a potential downside of 0.29%. Given Kimberly-Clark's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Kraft Heinz is more favorable than Kimberly-Clark.
Kraft Heinz has higher revenue and earnings than Kimberly-Clark. Kraft Heinz is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kimberly-Clark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kraft Heinz received 96 more outperform votes than Kimberly-Clark when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.28% of users gave Kraft Heinz an outperform vote while only 49.72% of users gave Kimberly-Clark an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Kimberly-Clark had 44 more articles in the media than Kraft Heinz. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for Kimberly-Clark and 14 mentions for Kraft Heinz. Kimberly-Clark's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Kraft Heinz's score of 0.76 indicating that Kraft Heinz is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kraft Heinz has a net margin of 10.72% compared to Kraft Heinz's net margin of 9.05%. Kraft Heinz's return on equity of 250.28% beat Kimberly-Clark's return on equity.
Kraft Heinz has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kimberly-Clark has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kraft Heinz pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Kimberly-Clark pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Kraft Heinz pays out 69.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kimberly-Clark pays out 89.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kimberly-Clark has increased its dividend for 53 consecutive years. Kraft Heinz is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Kraft Heinz beats Kimberly-Clark on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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