MNST vs. CCEP, CELH, EL, KHC, STZ, KDP, BTI, GIS, HSY, and CTVA
Should you be buying Monster Beverage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Monster Beverage include Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Celsius (CELH), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Kraft Heinz (KHC), Constellation Brands (STZ), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), British American Tobacco (BTI), General Mills (GIS), Hershey (HSY), and Corteva (CTVA). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (NASDAQ:CCEP) and Monster Beverage (NASDAQ:MNST) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Monster Beverage.
Monster Beverage has a net margin of 22.84% compared to Monster Beverage's net margin of 0.00%. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' return on equity of 20.95% beat Monster Beverage's return on equity.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monster Beverage has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners presently has a consensus price target of $73.56, suggesting a potential upside of 2.83%. Monster Beverage has a consensus price target of $61.68, suggesting a potential upside of 15.54%. Given Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Monster Beverage is more favorable than Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.
31.4% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.4% of Monster Beverage shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Monster Beverage shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Monster Beverage had 14 more articles in the media than Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Monster Beverage and 9 mentions for Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. Monster Beverage's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' score of 0.25 indicating that Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Monster Beverage received 789 more outperform votes than Coca-Cola Europacific Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.20% of users gave Monster Beverage an outperform vote while only 58.63% of users gave Coca-Cola Europacific Partners an outperform vote.
Summary
Monster Beverage beats Coca-Cola Europacific Partners on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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