UL vs. PG, ECL, CHD, SCL, KO, PEP, BUD, MDLZ, MO, and CL
Should you be buying Unilever stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unilever include Procter & Gamble (PG), Ecolab (ECL), Church & Dwight (CHD), Stepan (SCL), Coca-Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP), Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (BUD), Mondelez International (MDLZ), Altria Group (MO), and Colgate-Palmolive (CL).
Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) and Unilever (NYSE:UL) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
Procter & Gamble has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unilever has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Procter & Gamble had 15 more articles in the media than Unilever. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Procter & Gamble and 8 mentions for Unilever. Procter & Gamble's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Unilever's score of 0.90 indicating that Unilever is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Procter & Gamble has a net margin of 18.00% compared to Procter & Gamble's net margin of 0.00%. Unilever's return on equity of 33.91% beat Procter & Gamble's return on equity.
65.8% of Procter & Gamble shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.7% of Unilever shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Procter & Gamble shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Unilever shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Procter & Gamble has higher revenue and earnings than Unilever.
Procter & Gamble pays an annual dividend of $4.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Unilever pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Procter & Gamble pays out 65.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Procter & Gamble has increased its dividend for 69 consecutive years and Unilever has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Procter & Gamble presently has a consensus price target of $169.76, indicating a potential upside of 3.18%. Unilever has a consensus price target of $54.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.37%. Given Unilever's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Procter & Gamble is more favorable than Unilever.
Procter & Gamble received 420 more outperform votes than Unilever when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.38% of users gave Procter & Gamble an outperform vote while only 51.54% of users gave Unilever an outperform vote.
Summary
Procter & Gamble beats Unilever on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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