WEST vs. COCO, BRCC, NAPA, VWE, WVVI, LQR, BTTR, EAST, KO, and PEP
Should you be buying Westrock Coffee stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westrock Coffee include Vita Coco (COCO), BRC (BRCC), Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA), Vintage Wine Estates (VWE), Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVVI), LQR House (LQR), Better Choice (BTTR), Eastside Distilling (EAST), Coca-Cola (KO), and PepsiCo (PEP). These companies are all part of the "beverages" industry.
Westrock Coffee (NASDAQ:WEST) and Vita Coco (NASDAQ:COCO) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and valuation.
45.1% of Westrock Coffee shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.5% of Vita Coco shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.1% of Westrock Coffee shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 34.2% of Vita Coco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Westrock Coffee has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vita Coco has a beta of 0.18, suggesting that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Westrock Coffee presently has a consensus target price of $12.33, suggesting a potential upside of 18.82%. Vita Coco has a consensus target price of $29.67, suggesting a potential upside of 1.91%. Given Westrock Coffee's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Westrock Coffee is more favorable than Vita Coco.
In the previous week, Vita Coco had 7 more articles in the media than Westrock Coffee. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Vita Coco and 1 mentions for Westrock Coffee. Westrock Coffee's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Vita Coco's score of 0.55 indicating that Westrock Coffee is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vita Coco has a net margin of 10.93% compared to Westrock Coffee's net margin of -6.33%. Vita Coco's return on equity of 26.27% beat Westrock Coffee's return on equity.
Vita Coco has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Westrock Coffee. Westrock Coffee is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vita Coco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vita Coco received 21 more outperform votes than Westrock Coffee when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Westrock Coffee an outperform vote while only 63.64% of users gave Vita Coco an outperform vote.
Summary
Vita Coco beats Westrock Coffee on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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