KVUE vs. CL, EL, HLN, ELF, COTY, NTCOY, IPAR, ODD, EPC, and OLPX
Should you be buying Kenvue stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kenvue include Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Haleon (HLN), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Coty (COTY), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Oddity Tech (ODD), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), and Olaplex (OLPX). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) and Kenvue (NYSE:KVUE) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Kenvue had 3 more articles in the media than Colgate-Palmolive. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Kenvue and 9 mentions for Colgate-Palmolive. Kenvue's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Colgate-Palmolive's score of 0.87 indicating that Colgate-Palmolive is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Colgate-Palmolive has higher revenue and earnings than Kenvue. Kenvue is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Colgate-Palmolive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Colgate-Palmolive has a net margin of 13.22% compared to Colgate-Palmolive's net margin of 9.63%. Kenvue's return on equity of 485.40% beat Colgate-Palmolive's return on equity.
80.4% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.6% of Kenvue shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Kenvue shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Colgate-Palmolive pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Kenvue pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Colgate-Palmolive pays out 63.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kenvue pays out 102.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Colgate-Palmolive has increased its dividend for 62 consecutive years.
Colgate-Palmolive received 518 more outperform votes than Kenvue when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.33% of users gave Colgate-Palmolive an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Kenvue an outperform vote.
Colgate-Palmolive presently has a consensus target price of $92.94, suggesting a potential downside of 0.02%. Kenvue has a consensus target price of $23.09, suggesting a potential upside of 19.64%. Given Colgate-Palmolive's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kenvue is more favorable than Colgate-Palmolive.
Summary
Colgate-Palmolive beats Kenvue on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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