SCI vs. COTY, ELF, ACI, LW, PPC, ARMK, USFD, SJM, COKE, and INGR
Should you be buying Service Co. International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Service Co. International include Coty (COTY), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Lamb Weston (LW), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Aramark (ARMK), US Foods (USFD), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), and Ingredion (INGR). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Coty (NYSE:COTY) and Service Co. International (NYSE:SCI) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Service Co. International has a net margin of 13.11% compared to Service Co. International's net margin of 5.39%. Coty's return on equity of 32.88% beat Service Co. International's return on equity.
Coty has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Service Co. International has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Coty had 2 more articles in the media than Service Co. International. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Coty and 10 mentions for Service Co. International. Coty's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Service Co. International's score of 0.58 indicating that Service Co. International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Service Co. International has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Coty. Service Co. International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Coty currently has a consensus price target of $13.19, indicating a potential upside of 15.06%. Service Co. International has a consensus price target of $75.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.54%. Given Service Co. International's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Coty is more favorable than Service Co. International.
Coty received 197 more outperform votes than Service Co. International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.03% of users gave Service Co. International an outperform vote while only 54.93% of users gave Coty an outperform vote.
42.4% of Coty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Service Co. International shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Coty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Service Co. International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Coty and Service Co. International tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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