CCEP vs. CCH, BVIC, FEVR, BAG, NICL, ULVR, BATS, DGE, RKT, and TSCO
Should you be buying Coca-Cola Europacific Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners include Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), Britvic (BVIC), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), A.G. BARR (BAG), Nichols (NICL), Unilever (ULVR), British American Tobacco (BATS), Diageo (DGE), Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT), and Tesco (TSCO). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners vs. Its Competitors
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (LON:CCEP) and Coca-Cola HBC (LON:CCH) are both large-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners pays an annual dividend of GBX 191 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Coca-Cola HBC pays an annual dividend of GBX 79 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners pays out 65.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Coca-Cola HBC pays out 54.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners currently has a consensus target price of GBX 7,950, suggesting a potential upside of 8.02%. Coca-Cola HBC has a consensus target price of GBX 3,800, suggesting a potential downside of 3.36%. Given Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is more favorable than Coca-Cola HBC.
35.0% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.9% of Coca-Cola HBC shares are held by institutional investors. 55.4% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 47.2% of Coca-Cola HBC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca-Cola HBC has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners had 1 more articles in the media than Coca-Cola HBC. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and 0 mentions for Coca-Cola HBC. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Coca-Cola HBC'saverage media sentiment score.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has a net margin of 8.42% compared to Coca-Cola HBC's net margin of 6.12%. Coca-Cola HBC's return on equity of 21.07% beat Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' return on equity.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Coca-Cola HBC. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coca-Cola HBC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners beats Coca-Cola HBC on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:CCEP) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
