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Should you be buying Coca-Cola HBC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coca-Cola HBC include Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Britvic (BVIC), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), A.G. BARR (BAG), Nichols (NICL), Diageo (DGE), Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT), Imperial Brands (IMB), Tesco (TSCO), and Kerry Group (KYGA). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Coca-Cola HBC vs.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (LON:CCEP) and Coca-Cola HBC (LON:CCH) are both large-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners both had 2 articles in the media. Coca-Cola HBC's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Coca-Cola Europacific Partners' score of -0.80 indicating that Coca-Cola HBC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca-Cola HBC has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
35.0% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.9% of Coca-Cola HBC shares are owned by institutional investors. 55.4% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 47.2% of Coca-Cola HBC shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners pays an annual dividend of GBX 191 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Coca-Cola HBC pays an annual dividend of GBX 79 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. 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 HBC received 373 more outperform votes than Coca-Cola Europacific Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Coca-Cola Europacific Partners an outperform vote while only 60.61% of users gave Coca-Cola HBC an outperform vote.
Coca-Cola HBC has a consensus target price of GBX 2,825, indicating a potential downside of 18.02%. Given Coca-Cola HBC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Coca-Cola HBC is more favorable than Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.
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.
Summary
Coca-Cola HBC beats Coca-Cola Europacific Partners on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:CCH) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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