FIZZ vs. PRMW, COKE, OLLI, NTCOY, IPAR, BRFS, SMPL, RH, LANC, and FLO
Should you be buying National Beverage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of National Beverage include Primo Water (PRMW), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), BRF (BRFS), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), RH (RH), Lancaster Colony (LANC), and Flowers Foods (FLO).
Primo Water (NYSE:PRMW) and National Beverage (NASDAQ:FIZZ) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Primo Water currently has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.37%. Given National Beverage's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Primo Water is more favorable than National Beverage.
In the previous week, Primo Water had 2 more articles in the media than National Beverage. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Primo Water and 1 mentions for National Beverage. National Beverage's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Primo Water's score of 0.00 indicating that Primo Water is being referred to more favorably in the media.
87.7% of Primo Water shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.0% of National Beverage shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Primo Water shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 75.0% of National Beverage shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
National Beverage received 213 more outperform votes than Primo Water when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.97% of users gave Primo Water an outperform vote while only 60.33% of users gave National Beverage an outperform vote.
Primo Water has higher revenue and earnings than National Beverage. Primo Water is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Beverage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Primo Water has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Beverage has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
National Beverage has a net margin of 14.34% compared to National Beverage's net margin of 12.22%. Primo Water's return on equity of 38.23% beat National Beverage's return on equity.
Summary
Primo Water beats National Beverage on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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