BVIC vs. FEVR, BAG, NICL, CCH, SBRY, BME, OCDO, TATE, CWK, and PFD
Should you be buying Britvic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Britvic include Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), A.G. BARR (BAG), Nichols (NICL), Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), J Sainsbury (SBRY), B&M European Value Retail (BME), Ocado Group (OCDO), Tate & Lyle (TATE), Cranswick (CWK), and Premier Foods (PFD). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Britvic (LON:BVIC) and Fevertree Drinks (LON:FEVR) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Britvic currently has a consensus price target of GBX 970, suggesting a potential upside of 0.47%. Fevertree Drinks has a consensus price target of GBX 1,393.33, suggesting a potential upside of 28.89%. Given Fevertree Drinks' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fevertree Drinks is more favorable than Britvic.
Britvic pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Fevertree Drinks pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Britvic pays out 6,274.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Fevertree Drinks pays out 13,076.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Britvic is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
85.1% of Britvic shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.1% of Fevertree Drinks shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Britvic shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.1% of Fevertree Drinks shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Britvic had 1 more articles in the media than Fevertree Drinks. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Britvic and 1 mentions for Fevertree Drinks. Britvic's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Fevertree Drinks' score of 0.00 indicating that Britvic is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Britvic received 305 more outperform votes than Fevertree Drinks when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.46% of users gave Fevertree Drinks an outperform vote while only 69.39% of users gave Britvic an outperform vote.
Britvic has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fevertree Drinks has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Britvic has higher revenue and earnings than Fevertree Drinks. Britvic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fevertree Drinks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Britvic has a net margin of 7.06% compared to Fevertree Drinks' net margin of 4.23%. Britvic's return on equity of 36.42% beat Fevertree Drinks' return on equity.
Summary
Britvic beats Fevertree Drinks on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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