KMB vs. CL, CHD, CLX, WDFC, SPB, CENTA, ODC, PG, AVY, and PACK
Should you be buying Kimberly-Clark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kimberly-Clark include Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Church & Dwight (CHD), Clorox (CLX), WD-40 (WDFC), Spectrum Brands (SPB), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Oil-Dri Co. of America (ODC), Procter & Gamble (PG), Avery Dennison (AVY), and Ranpak (PACK).
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KMB) and Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Colgate-Palmolive has a net margin of 13.22% compared to Kimberly-Clark's net margin of 9.05%. Colgate-Palmolive's return on equity of 485.40% beat Kimberly-Clark's return on equity.
76.3% of Kimberly-Clark shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Kimberly-Clark shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are owned 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.
Kimberly-Clark currently has a consensus target price of $134.85, suggesting a potential upside of 1.16%. Colgate-Palmolive has a consensus target price of $92.94, suggesting a potential downside of 0.02%. Given Kimberly-Clark's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Kimberly-Clark is more favorable than Colgate-Palmolive.
Kimberly-Clark pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Colgate-Palmolive pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Kimberly-Clark pays out 89.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Colgate-Palmolive pays out 63.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Kimberly-Clark had 1 more articles in the media than Colgate-Palmolive. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Kimberly-Clark and 9 mentions for Colgate-Palmolive. Colgate-Palmolive's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Kimberly-Clark's score of 1.03 indicating that Colgate-Palmolive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Colgate-Palmolive has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kimberly-Clark. Kimberly-Clark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Colgate-Palmolive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kimberly-Clark has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Colgate-Palmolive has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kimberly-Clark received 3 more outperform votes than Colgate-Palmolive when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.33% of users gave Colgate-Palmolive an outperform vote while only 49.86% of users gave Kimberly-Clark an outperform vote.
Summary
Colgate-Palmolive beats Kimberly-Clark on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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