COKE vs. FIZZ, KO, PEP, MNST, CCEP, FMX, PRMB, CELH, ZVIA, and REED
Should you be buying Coca-Cola Consolidated stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coca-Cola Consolidated include National Beverage (FIZZ), Coca-Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP), Monster Beverage (MNST), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Fomento Económico Mexicano (FMX), Primo Brands (PRMB), Celsius (CELH), Zevia PBC (ZVIA), and Reed's (REED). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Coca-Cola Consolidated vs.
National Beverage (NASDAQ:FIZZ) and Coca-Cola Consolidated (NASDAQ:COKE) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Coca-Cola Consolidated has higher revenue and earnings than National Beverage. National Beverage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coca-Cola Consolidated, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
National Beverage has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca-Cola Consolidated has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Coca-Cola Consolidated had 6 more articles in the media than National Beverage. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Coca-Cola Consolidated and 1 mentions for National Beverage. Coca-Cola Consolidated's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat National Beverage's score of 0.00 indicating that Coca-Cola Consolidated is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
National Beverage has a net margin of 15.63% compared to Coca-Cola Consolidated's net margin of 7.81%. Coca-Cola Consolidated's return on equity of 46.94% beat National Beverage's return on equity.
Coca-Cola Consolidated received 21 more outperform votes than National Beverage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.90% of users gave Coca-Cola Consolidated an outperform vote while only 60.05% of users gave National Beverage an outperform vote.
National Beverage currently has a consensus price target of $45.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.88%. Given National Beverage's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe National Beverage is more favorable than Coca-Cola Consolidated.
24.0% of National Beverage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.2% of Coca-Cola Consolidated shares are owned by institutional investors. 74.8% of National Beverage shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Coca-Cola Consolidated beats National Beverage on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:COKE) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
