KVUE vs. CL, EL, HLN, ELF, COTY, NTCOY, IPAR, ODD, EPC, and OLPX
Should you be buying Kenvue stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kenvue include Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Haleon (HLN), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Coty (COTY), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Oddity Tech (ODD), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), and Olaplex (OLPX). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
Kenvue (NYSE:KVUE) and Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Colgate-Palmolive has higher revenue and earnings than Kenvue. Kenvue is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Colgate-Palmolive, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kenvue had 4 more articles in the media than Colgate-Palmolive. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Kenvue and 8 mentions for Colgate-Palmolive. Colgate-Palmolive's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Kenvue's score of 0.73 indicating that Colgate-Palmolive is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kenvue currently has a consensus price target of $23.09, suggesting a potential upside of 21.66%. Colgate-Palmolive has a consensus price target of $92.94, suggesting a potential upside of 1.43%. Given Kenvue's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Kenvue is more favorable than Colgate-Palmolive.
Colgate-Palmolive received 518 more outperform votes than Kenvue when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.33% of users gave Colgate-Palmolive an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Kenvue an outperform vote.
Colgate-Palmolive has a net margin of 13.22% compared to Kenvue's net margin of 9.63%. Colgate-Palmolive's return on equity of 485.40% beat Kenvue's return on equity.
97.6% of Kenvue shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Kenvue shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Colgate-Palmolive shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Kenvue pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Colgate-Palmolive pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Kenvue pays out 102.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Colgate-Palmolive pays out 63.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Colgate-Palmolive beats Kenvue on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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