COKE vs. FIZZ, KO, PEP, MNST, CCEP, CELH, PRMW, ZVIA, REED, and KOF
Should you be buying Coca-Cola Consolidated stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coca-Cola Consolidated include National Beverage (FIZZ), Coca-Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP), Monster Beverage (MNST), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Celsius (CELH), Primo Water (PRMW), Zevia PBC (ZVIA), Reed's (REED), and Coca-Cola FEMSA (KOF).
Coca-Cola Consolidated (NASDAQ:COKE) and National Beverage (NASDAQ:FIZZ) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
48.2% of Coca-Cola Consolidated shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.0% of National Beverage shares are held by institutional investors. 75.0% of National Beverage shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Beverage has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has higher revenue and earnings than National Beverage. Coca-Cola Consolidated is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Beverage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Coca-Cola Consolidated received 21 more outperform votes than National Beverage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.90% of users gave Coca-Cola Consolidated an outperform vote while only 60.33% of users gave National Beverage an outperform vote.
National Beverage has a net margin of 14.34% compared to Coca-Cola Consolidated's net margin of 6.83%. Coca-Cola Consolidated's return on equity of 42.10% beat National Beverage's return on equity.
In the previous week, Coca-Cola Consolidated had 6 more articles in the media than National Beverage. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Coca-Cola Consolidated and 2 mentions for National Beverage. National Beverage's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Coca-Cola Consolidated's score of 0.70 indicating that National Beverage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Coca-Cola Consolidated beats National Beverage on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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