TAP vs. SAM, CCU, BUD, KMB, KHC, HSY, CTVA, GIS, KVUE, and SYY
Should you be buying Molson Coors Beverage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Molson Coors Beverage include Boston Beer (SAM), Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (CCU), Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (BUD), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Kraft Heinz (KHC), Hershey (HSY), Corteva (CTVA), General Mills (GIS), Kenvue (KVUE), and Sysco (SYY). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM) and Molson Coors Beverage (NYSE:TAP) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Boston Beer currently has a consensus price target of $333.93, suggesting a potential upside of 28.68%. Molson Coors Beverage has a consensus price target of $65.53, suggesting a potential upside of 23.74%. Given Molson Coors Beverage's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Boston Beer is more favorable than Molson Coors Beverage.
81.1% of Boston Beer shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.5% of Molson Coors Beverage shares are held by institutional investors. 24.0% of Boston Beer shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Molson Coors Beverage shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Molson Coors Beverage received 109 more outperform votes than Boston Beer when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.83% of users gave Molson Coors Beverage an outperform vote while only 48.06% of users gave Boston Beer an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Boston Beer had 2 more articles in the media than Molson Coors Beverage. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Boston Beer and 9 mentions for Molson Coors Beverage. Molson Coors Beverage's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Boston Beer's score of 0.49 indicating that Boston Beer is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Molson Coors Beverage has a net margin of 7.66% compared to Molson Coors Beverage's net margin of 4.60%. Molson Coors Beverage's return on equity of 10.11% beat Boston Beer's return on equity.
Boston Beer has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Molson Coors Beverage has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Molson Coors Beverage has higher revenue and earnings than Boston Beer. Molson Coors Beverage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boston Beer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Boston Beer beats Molson Coors Beverage on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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