KO vs. PEP, MNST, COKE, FIZZ, DEO, KDP, STZ, ABEV, BF.B, and COCO
Should you be buying Coca-Cola stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coca-Cola include PepsiCo (PEP), Monster Beverage (MNST), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), National Beverage (FIZZ), Diageo (DEO), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Constellation Brands (STZ), Ambev (ABEV), Brown-Forman (BF.B), and Vita Coco (COCO). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) and PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Coca-Cola received 80 more outperform votes than PepsiCo when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.27% of users gave PepsiCo an outperform vote while only 67.76% of users gave Coca-Cola an outperform vote.
Coca-Cola has a net margin of 23.41% compared to PepsiCo's net margin of 10.00%. PepsiCo's return on equity of 57.37% beat Coca-Cola's return on equity.
Coca-Cola pays an annual dividend of $1.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. PepsiCo pays an annual dividend of $5.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Coca-Cola pays out 77.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PepsiCo pays out 76.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Coca-Cola had 6 more articles in the media than PepsiCo. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Coca-Cola and 15 mentions for PepsiCo. PepsiCo's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Coca-Cola's score of 0.86 indicating that PepsiCo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Coca-Cola has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PepsiCo has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Coca-Cola has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PepsiCo. Coca-Cola is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PepsiCo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
70.3% of Coca-Cola shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.1% of PepsiCo shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Coca-Cola shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PepsiCo shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Coca-Cola presently has a consensus target price of $68.58, indicating a potential upside of 8.98%. PepsiCo has a consensus target price of $187.58, indicating a potential upside of 8.49%. Given Coca-Cola's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Coca-Cola is more favorable than PepsiCo.
Summary
Coca-Cola beats PepsiCo on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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