MNST vs. COKE, FIZZ, KO, PEP, KOF, CCEP, FMX, PRMB, CELH, and ZVIA
Should you be buying Monster Beverage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Monster Beverage include Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), National Beverage (FIZZ), Coca-Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP), Coca-Cola FEMSA (KOF), Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Fomento Económico Mexicano (FMX), Primo Brands (PRMB), Celsius (CELH), and Zevia PBC (ZVIA). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Monster Beverage vs.
Monster Beverage (NASDAQ:MNST) and Coca-Cola Consolidated (NASDAQ:COKE) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Monster Beverage has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca-Cola Consolidated has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Monster Beverage has higher revenue and earnings than Coca-Cola Consolidated. Coca-Cola Consolidated is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Monster Beverage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
72.4% of Monster Beverage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.2% of Coca-Cola Consolidated shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of Monster Beverage shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Monster Beverage has a net margin of 21.66% compared to Coca-Cola Consolidated's net margin of 7.81%. Coca-Cola Consolidated's return on equity of 46.94% beat Monster Beverage's return on equity.
In the previous week, Monster Beverage had 3 more articles in the media than Coca-Cola Consolidated. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Monster Beverage and 11 mentions for Coca-Cola Consolidated. Coca-Cola Consolidated's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Monster Beverage's score of 0.73 indicating that Coca-Cola Consolidated is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Monster Beverage presently has a consensus price target of $55.42, indicating a potential upside of 11.82%. Given Monster Beverage's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Monster Beverage is more favorable than Coca-Cola Consolidated.
Monster Beverage received 678 more outperform votes than Coca-Cola Consolidated when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.56% of users gave Monster Beverage an outperform vote while only 62.90% of users gave Coca-Cola Consolidated an outperform vote.
Summary
Monster Beverage beats Coca-Cola Consolidated on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MNST) was last updated on 1/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
