BNZL vs. KITW, BSD, RKT, TSCO, ABF, IMB, CCH, SBRY, BME, and OCDO
Should you be buying Bunzl stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bunzl include Kitwave Group (KITW), B.S.D Crown (BSD), Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT), Tesco (TSCO), Associated British Foods (ABF), Imperial Brands (IMB), Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), J Sainsbury (SBRY), B&M European Value Retail (BME), and Ocado Group (OCDO). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Kitwave Group (LON:KITW) and Bunzl (LON:BNZL) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Kitwave Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Bunzl pays an annual dividend of GBX 68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Kitwave Group pays out 4,230.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bunzl pays out 4,415.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kitwave Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Bunzl had 3 more articles in the media than Kitwave Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Bunzl and 1 mentions for Kitwave Group. Kitwave Group's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Bunzl's score of -0.92 indicating that Bunzl is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bunzl has higher revenue and earnings than Kitwave Group. Kitwave Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bunzl, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bunzl received 472 more outperform votes than Kitwave Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Kitwave Group an outperform vote while only 60.15% of users gave Bunzl an outperform vote.
63.0% of Kitwave Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.5% of Bunzl shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.1% of Kitwave Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Bunzl shares are owned 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.
Kitwave Group has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bunzl has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kitwave Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 455, suggesting a potential upside of 26.39%. Bunzl has a consensus target price of GBX 2,900, suggesting a potential downside of 1.23%. Given Bunzl's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Kitwave Group is more favorable than Bunzl.
Bunzl has a net margin of 4.46% compared to Bunzl's net margin of 3.15%. Bunzl's return on equity of 24.25% beat Kitwave Group's return on equity.
Summary
Bunzl beats Kitwave Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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