CCH vs. BVIC, FEVR, BAG, NICL, RKT, TSCO, ABF, IMB, BNZL, and SBRY
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), Tesco (TSCO), Associated British Foods (ABF), Imperial Brands (IMB), Bunzl (BNZL), and J Sainsbury (SBRY). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Coca-Cola HBC (LON:CCH) and Britvic (LON:BVIC) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Coca-Cola HBC pays an annual dividend of GBX 79 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Britvic pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Coca-Cola HBC pays out 5,337.8% 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.
27.2% of Coca-Cola HBC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of Britvic shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.2% of Coca-Cola HBC shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Britvic shares are owned 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.
Britvic has a net margin of 7.06% compared to Coca-Cola HBC's net margin of 6.25%. Britvic's return on equity of 36.42% beat Coca-Cola HBC's return on equity.
Coca-Cola HBC presently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,875, suggesting a potential upside of 8.41%. Britvic has a consensus price target of GBX 970, suggesting a potential upside of 0.62%. Given Coca-Cola HBC's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Coca-Cola HBC is more favorable than Britvic.
Coca-Cola HBC has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Britvic has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Britvic received 277 more outperform votes than Coca-Cola HBC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.39% of users gave Britvic an outperform vote while only 60.65% of users gave Coca-Cola HBC an outperform vote.
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.
In the previous week, Coca-Cola HBC had 4 more articles in the media than Britvic. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Coca-Cola HBC and 2 mentions for Britvic. Coca-Cola HBC's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Britvic's score of 0.15 indicating that Coca-Cola HBC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Coca-Cola HBC and Britvic tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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