CELH vs. MNST, CCEP, COKE, FIZZ, PRMW, ZVIA, REED, KOF, FMX, and KDP
Should you be buying Celsius stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celsius include Monster Beverage (MNST), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), National Beverage (FIZZ), Primo Water (PRMW), Zevia PBC (ZVIA), Reed's (REED), Coca-Cola FEMSA (KOF), Fomento Económico Mexicano (FMX), and Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP).
Monster Beverage (NASDAQ:MNST) and Celsius (NASDAQ:CELH) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Monster Beverage currently has a consensus target price of $61.32, suggesting a potential upside of 17.87%. Celsius has a consensus target price of $89.82, suggesting a potential upside of 28.32%. Given Monster Beverage's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Celsius is more favorable than Monster Beverage.
Monster Beverage has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celsius has a beta of 1.93, meaning that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
72.4% of Monster Beverage shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.0% of Celsius shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of Monster Beverage shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Celsius shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Celsius had 1 more articles in the media than Monster Beverage. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Celsius and 16 mentions for Monster Beverage. Celsius' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Monster Beverage's score of 1.00 indicating that Monster Beverage is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Monster Beverage has a net margin of 22.83% compared to Monster Beverage's net margin of 18.63%. Monster Beverage's return on equity of 111.29% beat Celsius' return on equity.
Monster Beverage received 663 more outperform votes than Celsius when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.06% of users gave Monster Beverage an outperform vote while only 63.64% of users gave Celsius an outperform vote.
Monster Beverage has higher revenue and earnings than Celsius. Monster Beverage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Celsius, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Monster Beverage beats Celsius on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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