CELH vs. MNST, CCEP, COKE, FIZZ, PRMW, ZVIA, REED, KOF, FMX, and CL
Should you be buying Celsius stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celsius include Monster Beverage (MNST), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), National Beverage (FIZZ), Primo Water (PRMW), Zevia PBC (ZVIA), Reed's (REED), Coca-Cola FEMSA (KOF), Fomento Económico Mexicano (FMX), and Colgate-Palmolive (CL).
Monster Beverage (NASDAQ:MNST) and Celsius (NASDAQ:CELH) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
Monster Beverage has a net margin of 22.83% compared to Monster Beverage's net margin of 18.63%. Monster Beverage's return on equity of 111.29% beat Celsius' return on equity.
Monster Beverage has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celsius has a beta of 1.93, indicating that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Monster Beverage presently has a consensus price target of $61.32, suggesting a potential upside of 18.10%. Celsius has a consensus price target of $89.82, suggesting a potential upside of 12.30%. Given Celsius' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Monster Beverage is more favorable than Celsius.
Monster Beverage received 663 more outperform votes than Celsius when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.06% of users gave Monster Beverage an outperform vote while only 63.64% of users gave Celsius an outperform vote.
72.4% of Monster Beverage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.0% of Celsius shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of Monster Beverage shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Celsius shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Monster Beverage has higher revenue and earnings than Celsius. Monster Beverage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Celsius, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Celsius had 23 more articles in the media than Monster Beverage. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Celsius and 12 mentions for Monster Beverage. Celsius' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Monster Beverage's score of 0.62 indicating that Monster Beverage is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Monster Beverage beats Celsius on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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