KDP vs. DEO, STZ, ABEV, BF.B, COCO, BRCC, NAPA, WEST, VWE, and WVVI
Should you be buying Keurig Dr Pepper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Keurig Dr Pepper include Diageo (DEO), Constellation Brands (STZ), Ambev (ABEV), Brown-Forman (BF.B), Vita Coco (COCO), BRC (BRCC), Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA), Westrock Coffee (WEST), Vintage Wine Estates (VWE), and Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVVI). These companies are all part of the "beverages" industry.
Diageo (NYSE:DEO) and Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ:KDP) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and media sentiment.
Diageo presently has a consensus target price of $166.37, indicating a potential upside of 23.20%. Keurig Dr Pepper has a consensus target price of $36.64, indicating a potential upside of 6.97%. Given Keurig Dr Pepper's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Diageo is more favorable than Keurig Dr Pepper.
Diageo has higher revenue and earnings than Keurig Dr Pepper.
Diageo has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Keurig Dr Pepper has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Keurig Dr Pepper had 2 more articles in the media than Diageo. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Keurig Dr Pepper and 8 mentions for Diageo. Diageo's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Keurig Dr Pepper's score of 0.78 indicating that Keurig Dr Pepper is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Diageo pays an annual dividend of $3.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Keurig Dr Pepper pays an annual dividend of $0.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Keurig Dr Pepper pays out 55.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Keurig Dr Pepper has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Keurig Dr Pepper is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
9.0% of Diageo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.2% of Keurig Dr Pepper shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Keurig Dr Pepper shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Keurig Dr Pepper has a net margin of 14.52% compared to Keurig Dr Pepper's net margin of 0.00%. Diageo's return on equity of 10.18% beat Keurig Dr Pepper's return on equity.
Diageo received 270 more outperform votes than Keurig Dr Pepper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.19% of users gave Diageo an outperform vote while only 34.33% of users gave Keurig Dr Pepper an outperform vote.
Summary
Keurig Dr Pepper beats Diageo on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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