Church & Dwight (CHD) Competitors

Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) and Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, CHD or CL?

Colgate-Palmolive has higher revenue and earnings than Church & Dwight. Colgate-Palmolive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Church & Dwight, 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
Church & Dwight	$6.05B	4.29	$755.60M	$2.23	47.58
Colgate-Palmolive	$20.11B	3.74	$2.30B	$3.49	26.37

Do analysts recommend CHD or CL?

Church & Dwight presently has a consensus target price of $109.56, suggesting a potential upside of 3.26%. Colgate-Palmolive has a consensus target price of $105.11, suggesting a potential upside of 14.21%. Given Colgate-Palmolive's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Colgate-Palmolive is more favorable than Church & Dwight.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Church & Dwight	2 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33
Colgate-Palmolive	1 Sell rating(s)	9 Hold rating(s)	12 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Is CHD or CL a better dividend stock?

Church & Dwight pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Colgate-Palmolive pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Church & Dwight pays out 50.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Colgate-Palmolive pays out 57.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Church & Dwight has increased its dividend for 28 consecutive years and Colgate-Palmolive has increased its dividend for 62 consecutive years. Colgate-Palmolive is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Which has more risk & volatility, CHD or CL?

Church & Dwight has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Colgate-Palmolive has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CHD or CL?

Church & Dwight received 14 more outperform votes than Colgate-Palmolive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.78% of users gave Church & Dwight an outperform vote while only 50.46% of users gave Colgate-Palmolive an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Church & Dwight	Outperform Votes 561 57.78%	Underperform Votes 410 42.22%
Colgate-Palmolive	Outperform Votes 547 50.46%	Underperform Votes 537 49.54%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of CHD or CL?

86.6% of Church & Dwight shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Church & Dwight shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media refer more to CHD or CL?

In the previous week, Church & Dwight and Church & Dwight both had 12 articles in the media. Church & Dwight's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Colgate-Palmolive's score of 0.88 indicating that Church & Dwight is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Church & Dwight	6 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Colgate-Palmolive	7 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is CHD or CL more profitable?

Colgate-Palmolive has a net margin of 14.27% compared to Church & Dwight's net margin of 9.08%. Colgate-Palmolive's return on equity of 405.81% beat Church & Dwight's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Church & Dwight	9.08%	19.90%	9.48%
Colgate-Palmolive	14.27%	405.81%	17.72%

Summary

Colgate-Palmolive beats Church & Dwight on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.