NICL vs. FEVR, BAG, CCH, BVIC, DCG, GNC, HFG, BAKK, CCR, and TOT
Should you be buying Nichols stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nichols include Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), A.G. BARR (BAG), Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), Britvic (BVIC), Dairy Crest Group (DCG), Greencore Group (GNC), Hilton Food Group (HFG), Bakkavor Group (BAKK), C&C Group (CCR), and Total Produce (TOT). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Fevertree Drinks (LON:FEVR) and Nichols (LON:NICL) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Fevertree Drinks has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nichols has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fevertree Drinks currently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,393.33, suggesting a potential upside of 28.89%. Given Nichols' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Fevertree Drinks is more favorable than Nichols.
In the previous week, Nichols had 5 more articles in the media than Fevertree Drinks. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Nichols and 1 mentions for Fevertree Drinks. Nichols' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Fevertree Drinks' score of -0.31 indicating that Fevertree Drinks is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nichols has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fevertree Drinks. Nichols is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fevertree Drinks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
71.1% of Fevertree Drinks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.5% of Nichols shares are held by institutional investors. 11.1% of Fevertree Drinks shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.7% of Nichols shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Nichols has a net margin of 10.75% compared to Nichols' net margin of 4.23%. Fevertree Drinks' return on equity of 19.74% beat Nichols' return on equity.
Fevertree Drinks pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Nichols pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. 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. Nichols pays out 5,600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Nichols is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Fevertree Drinks received 164 more outperform votes than Nichols when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.46% of users gave Fevertree Drinks an outperform vote while only 61.95% of users gave Nichols an outperform vote.
Summary
Fevertree Drinks beats Nichols on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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