TAP vs. SAM, LW, SJM, ACI, USFD, CPB, SCI, CAG, COTY, and PPC
Should you be buying Molson Coors Beverage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Molson Coors Beverage include Boston Beer (SAM), Lamb Weston (LW), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Albertsons Companies (ACI), US Foods (USFD), Campbell Soup (CPB), Service Co. International (SCI), Conagra Brands (CAG), Coty (COTY), and Pilgrim's Pride (PPC). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM) and Molson Coors Beverage (NYSE:TAP) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Molson Coors Beverage has a net margin of 7.66% compared to Molson Coors Beverage's net margin of 4.60%. Molson Coors Beverage's return on equity of 10.11% beat Boston Beer's return on equity.
81.1% of Boston Beer shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.5% of Molson Coors Beverage shares are held by institutional investors. 23.3% of Boston Beer shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Molson Coors Beverage shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Molson Coors Beverage has higher revenue and earnings than Boston Beer. Molson Coors Beverage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boston Beer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Boston Beer had 6 more articles in the media than Molson Coors Beverage. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Boston Beer and 9 mentions for Molson Coors Beverage. Boston Beer's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Molson Coors Beverage's score of 0.36 indicating that Molson Coors Beverage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Molson Coors Beverage received 109 more outperform votes than Boston Beer when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.83% of users gave Molson Coors Beverage an outperform vote while only 48.06% of users gave Boston Beer an outperform vote.
Boston Beer currently has a consensus target price of $333.93, indicating a potential upside of 19.12%. Molson Coors Beverage has a consensus target price of $65.53, indicating a potential upside of 16.05%. Given Molson Coors Beverage's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Boston Beer is more favorable than Molson Coors Beverage.
Boston Beer has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Molson Coors Beverage has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Boston Beer beats Molson Coors Beverage on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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