Vita Coco (COCO) Competitors

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (NYSE:CCU) and Vita Coco (NASDAQ:COCO) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.

Do analysts rate CCU or COCO?

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas presently has a consensus price target of $11.03, suggesting a potential downside of 27.32%. Vita Coco has a consensus price target of $34.57, suggesting a potential upside of 10.17%. Given Vita Coco's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Vita Coco is more favorable than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	3 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.75
Vita Coco	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.57

Which has more risk & volatility, CCU or COCO?

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vita Coco has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CCU or COCO?

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas received 299 more outperform votes than Vita Coco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.29% of users gave Compañía Cervecerías Unidas an outperform vote while only 61.82% of users gave Vita Coco an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	Outperform Votes 333 64.29%	Underperform Votes 185 35.71%
Vita Coco	Outperform Votes 34 61.82%	Underperform Votes 21 38.18%

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, CCU or COCO?

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has higher revenue and earnings than Vita Coco. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vita Coco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	$2.90T	0.00	$126.78M	$0.92	16.50
Vita Coco	$516.01M	3.47	$46.63M	$0.94	33.38

Is CCU or COCO more profitable?

Vita Coco has a net margin of 11.99% compared to Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' net margin of 5.14%. Vita Coco's return on equity of 26.49% beat Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	5.14%	7.05%	2.90%
Vita Coco	11.99%	26.49%	18.98%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of CCU or COCO?

24.1% of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.5% of Vita Coco shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.4% of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 34.2% of Vita Coco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media refer more to CCU or COCO?

In the previous week, Vita Coco had 10 more articles in the media than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Vita Coco and 2 mentions for Compañía Cervecerías Unidas. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Vita Coco's score of 0.63 indicating that Compañía Cervecerías Unidas is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Vita Coco	5 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Vita Coco beats Compañía Cervecerías Unidas on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.