KOF vs. FMX, CHSCP, JVA, TKLF, REED, FIZZ, COKE, CELH, CCEP, and MNST
Should you be buying Coca-Cola FEMSA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coca-Cola FEMSA include Fomento Económico Mexicano (FMX), CHS (CHSCP), Coffee (JVA), Yoshitsu (TKLF), Reed's (REED), National Beverage (FIZZ), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Celsius (CELH), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), and Monster Beverage (MNST). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Coca-Cola FEMSA (NYSE:KOF) and Fomento Económico Mexicano (NYSE:FMX) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Coca-Cola FEMSA currently has a consensus target price of $100.75, indicating a potential upside of 1.15%. Fomento Económico Mexicano has a consensus target price of $135.75, indicating a potential upside of 14.14%. Given Fomento Económico Mexicano's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fomento Económico Mexicano is more favorable than Coca-Cola FEMSA.
Fomento Económico Mexicano has higher revenue and earnings than Coca-Cola FEMSA. Coca-Cola FEMSA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fomento Económico Mexicano, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Fomento Económico Mexicano had 5 more articles in the media than Coca-Cola FEMSA. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Fomento Económico Mexicano and 4 mentions for Coca-Cola FEMSA. Coca-Cola FEMSA's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Fomento Económico Mexicano's score of 0.53 indicating that Coca-Cola FEMSA is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Coca-Cola FEMSA received 34 more outperform votes than Fomento Económico Mexicano when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.77% of users gave Fomento Económico Mexicano an outperform vote while only 56.57% of users gave Coca-Cola FEMSA an outperform vote.
Coca-Cola FEMSA pays an annual dividend of $0.79 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Fomento Económico Mexicano pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Coca-Cola FEMSA pays out 13.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fomento Económico Mexicano pays out 16.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Coca-Cola FEMSA is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Fomento Económico Mexicano has a net margin of 8.53% compared to Coca-Cola FEMSA's net margin of 8.15%. Coca-Cola FEMSA's return on equity of 15.96% beat Fomento Económico Mexicano's return on equity.
Coca-Cola FEMSA has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fomento Económico Mexicano has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Coca-Cola FEMSA beats Fomento Económico Mexicano on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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