KVUE vs. EL, COTY, CL, SYY, ABEV, CTVA, CCEP, GIS, FMX, and ADM
Should you be buying Kenvue stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kenvue include Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Coty (COTY), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Sysco (SYY), Ambev (ABEV), Corteva (CTVA), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), General Mills (GIS), Fomento Económico Mexicano (FMX), and Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM). 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 better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
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. Comparatively, 0.2% of Kenvue shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Kenvue has a net margin of 9.87% compared to Kenvue's net margin of 4.18%. Estée Lauder Companies' return on equity of 15.62% beat Kenvue's return on equity.
Estée Lauder Companies received 1153 more outperform votes than Kenvue when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.30% of users gave Estée Lauder Companies an outperform vote while only 46.15% of users gave Kenvue an outperform vote.
Kenvue has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Estée Lauder Companies.
In the previous week, Estée Lauder Companies had 41 more articles in the media than Kenvue. MarketBeat recorded 66 mentions for Estée Lauder Companies and 25 mentions for Kenvue. Estée Lauder Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Kenvue's score of 0.53 indicating that Kenvue is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Estée Lauder Companies pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Kenvue pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Estée Lauder Companies pays out 148.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Estée Lauder Companies currently has a consensus price target of $160.92, suggesting a potential upside of 24.24%. Kenvue has a consensus price target of $24.85, suggesting a potential upside of 23.74%. Given Kenvue's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Estée Lauder Companies is more favorable than Kenvue.
Summary
Estée Lauder Companies beats Kenvue on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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