ULVR vs. RKT, PZC, W7L, MCB, ACRL, REVB, SKIN, CRL, BAR, and CBX
Should you be buying Unilever stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unilever include Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT), PZ Cussons (PZC), Warpaint London (W7L), McBride (MCB), Accrol Group (ACRL), Revolution Beauty Group (REVB), DeepVerge plc (SKIN.L) (SKIN), Creightons (CRL), Brand Architekts Group (BAR), and Cellular Goods (CBX). These companies are all part of the "household & personal products" industry.
Unilever (LON:ULVR) and Reckitt Benckiser Group (LON:RKT) are both large-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
In the previous week, Unilever and Unilever both had 2 articles in the media. Unilever's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Reckitt Benckiser Group'saverage media sentiment score.
50.9% of Unilever shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.5% of Reckitt Benckiser Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Unilever shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Reckitt Benckiser Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Reckitt Benckiser Group has a net margin of 11.25% compared to Unilever's net margin of 10.88%. Unilever's return on equity of 33.63% beat Reckitt Benckiser Group's return on equity.
Unilever currently has a consensus price target of GBX 4,515, suggesting a potential upside of 4.66%. Given Unilever's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Unilever is more favorable than Reckitt Benckiser Group.
Unilever received 954 more outperform votes than Reckitt Benckiser Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 90.77% of users gave Reckitt Benckiser Group an outperform vote while only 58.18% of users gave Unilever an outperform vote.
Unilever pays an annual dividend of GBX 147 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Reckitt Benckiser Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 193 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Unilever pays out 6,743.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Reckitt Benckiser Group pays out 8,502.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Unilever has a beta of 0.16, suggesting that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Reckitt Benckiser Group has a beta of 0.06, suggesting that its stock price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Unilever has higher revenue and earnings than Reckitt Benckiser Group. Unilever is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Reckitt Benckiser Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Unilever beats Reckitt Benckiser Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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