Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (CCU) Competitors

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

Do analysts recommend COCO or CCU?

Vita Coco currently has a consensus target price of $34.83, indicating a potential downside of 7.31%. Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has a consensus target price of $11.03, indicating a potential downside of 14.81%. Given Vita Coco's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Vita Coco is more favorable than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Vita Coco	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	3 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.75

Do institutionals & insiders believe in COCO or CCU?

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

Which has more risk and volatility, COCO or CCU?

Vita Coco has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compañía Cervecerías Unidas has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor COCO or CCU?

In the previous week, Vita Coco had 13 more articles in the media than Compañía Cervecerías Unidas. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Vita Coco and 1 mentions for Compañía Cervecerías Unidas. Vita Coco's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Compañía Cervecerías Unidas' score of 0.00 indicating that Vita Coco is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Vita Coco	9 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Is COCO or CCU 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
Vita Coco	11.99%	26.49%	18.98%
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	5.14%	7.05%	2.90%

Which has better earnings and valuation, COCO or CCU?

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
Vita Coco	$493.61M	4.32	$46.63M	$0.99	37.96
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	$3.06B	0.78	$126.78M	$0.75	17.27

Does the MarketBeat Community favor COCO or CCU?

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas received 298 more outperform votes than Vita Coco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.08% of users gave Compañía Cervecerías Unidas an outperform vote while only 61.54% of users gave Vita Coco an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Vita Coco	Outperform Votes 32 61.54%	Underperform Votes 20 38.46%
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas	Outperform Votes 330 64.08%	Underperform Votes 185 35.92%

Summary

Vita Coco beats Compañía Cervecerías Unidas on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.