EL vs. KVUE, CL, STZ, KDP, KMB, KHC, HSY, GIS, CTVA, and MNST
Should you be buying Estée Lauder Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Estée Lauder Companies include Kenvue (KVUE), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Constellation Brands (STZ), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Kraft Heinz (KHC), Hershey (HSY), General Mills (GIS), Corteva (CTVA), and Monster Beverage (MNST). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Kenvue (NYSE:KVUE) and Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
97.6% of Kenvue shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.2% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Kenvue shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kenvue has a net margin of 9.63% compared to Kenvue's net margin of 4.18%. Estée Lauder Companies' return on equity of 21.06% beat Kenvue's return on equity.
Kenvue pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Estée Lauder Companies pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Kenvue pays out 102.6% 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 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. Kenvue is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Kenvue has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Estée Lauder Companies. Kenvue is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Estée Lauder Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kenvue presently has a consensus price target of $24.38, suggesting a potential upside of 18.31%. Estée Lauder Companies has a consensus price target of $160.92, suggesting a potential upside of 18.58%. Given Kenvue's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Estée Lauder Companies is more favorable than Kenvue.
In the previous week, Kenvue had 17 more articles in the media than Estée Lauder Companies. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Kenvue and 12 mentions for Estée Lauder Companies. Kenvue's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Estée Lauder Companies' score of 0.56 indicating that Estée Lauder Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 44.44% of users gave Kenvue an outperform vote.
Summary
Estée Lauder Companies beats Kenvue on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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