CCH vs. BVIC, FEVR, BAG, NICL, RKT, CCEP, TSCO, IMB, ABF, and BNZL
Should you be buying Coca-Cola HBC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coca-Cola HBC include Britvic (BVIC), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), A.G. BARR (BAG), Nichols (NICL), Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Tesco (TSCO), Imperial Brands (IMB), Associated British Foods (ABF), and Bunzl (BNZL). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Coca-Cola HBC vs.
Coca-Cola HBC (LON:CCH) and Britvic (LON:BVIC) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.
26.9% of Coca-Cola HBC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Britvic shares are held by institutional investors. 47.2% of Coca-Cola HBC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of Britvic 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 HBC currently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,825, indicating a potential upside of 4.86%. Britvic has a consensus price target of GBX 1,107.50, indicating a potential downside of 15.13%. Given Coca-Cola HBC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Coca-Cola HBC is more favorable than Britvic.
Coca-Cola HBC pays an annual dividend of GBX 79 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Britvic pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Coca-Cola HBC pays out 5,524.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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. Coca-Cola HBC is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Britvic received 276 more outperform votes than Coca-Cola HBC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.25% of users gave Britvic an outperform vote while only 60.61% of users gave Coca-Cola HBC an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Britvic had 3 more articles in the media than Coca-Cola HBC. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Britvic and 4 mentions for Coca-Cola HBC. Coca-Cola HBC's average media sentiment score of 1.78 beat Britvic's score of 0.82 indicating that Coca-Cola HBC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Britvic has a net margin of 7.06% compared to Coca-Cola HBC's net margin of 6.12%. Britvic's return on equity of 36.42% beat Coca-Cola HBC's return on equity.
Coca-Cola HBC has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Britvic has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Coca-Cola HBC has higher revenue and earnings than Britvic. Coca-Cola HBC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Britvic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Coca-Cola HBC beats Britvic on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:CCH) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
