MNST vs. CCEP, SBUX, CELH, EL, STZ, KDP, KMB, BTI, KHC, and HSY
Should you be buying Monster Beverage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Monster Beverage include Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Starbucks (SBUX), Celsius (CELH), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Constellation Brands (STZ), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), British American Tobacco (BTI), Kraft Heinz (KHC), and Hershey (HSY).
Monster Beverage (NASDAQ:MNST) and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (NASDAQ:CCEP) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
In the previous week, Monster Beverage had 6 more articles in the media than Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Monster Beverage and 8 mentions for Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Monster Beverage's score of 0.86 indicating that Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
72.4% of Monster Beverage shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.4% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 9.4% of Monster Beverage shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Monster Beverage.
Monster Beverage has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Monster Beverage received 789 more outperform votes than Coca-Cola Europacific Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.06% of users gave Monster Beverage an outperform vote while only 58.57% of users gave Coca-Cola Europacific Partners an outperform vote.
Monster Beverage has a net margin of 22.83% compared to Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' net margin of 0.00%. Monster Beverage's return on equity of 20.74% beat Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' return on equity.
Monster Beverage presently has a consensus target price of $61.32, suggesting a potential upside of 13.32%. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has a consensus target price of $74.22, suggesting a potential downside of 0.39%. Given Monster Beverage's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Monster Beverage is more favorable than Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.
Summary
Monster Beverage beats Coca-Cola Europacific Partners on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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