Primo Brands (PRMB) Competitors

Coca-Cola Consolidated (NASDAQ:COKE) and Primo Brands (NYSE:PRMB) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in COKE or PRMB?

48.2% of Coca-Cola Consolidated shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.7% of Primo Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Primo Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts recommend COKE or PRMB?

Primo Brands has a consensus target price of $33.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.50%. Given Primo Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Primo Brands is more favorable than Coca-Cola Consolidated.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Coca-Cola Consolidated	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Primo Brands	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer COKE or PRMB?

Coca-Cola Consolidated received 277 more outperform votes than Primo Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Primo Brands an outperform vote while only 62.90% of users gave Coca-Cola Consolidated an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Coca-Cola Consolidated	Outperform Votes 278 62.90%	Underperform Votes 164 37.10%
Primo Brands	Outperform Votes 1 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, COKE or PRMB?

Coca-Cola Consolidated has higher revenue and earnings than Primo Brands. Primo Brands 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Coca-Cola Consolidated	$6.65B	1.61	$408.38M	$57.46	21.30
Primo Brands	$1.77B	2.56	$238.10M	$1.61	17.59

Is COKE or PRMB a better dividend stock?

Coca-Cola Consolidated pays an annual dividend of $10.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Primo Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Coca-Cola Consolidated pays out 17.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Primo Brands pays out 22.4% 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.

Is COKE or PRMB more profitable?

Primo Brands has a net margin of 13.63% compared to Coca-Cola Consolidated's net margin of 7.81%. Coca-Cola Consolidated's return on equity of 46.94% beat Primo Brands' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Coca-Cola Consolidated	7.81%	46.94%	13.27%
Primo Brands	13.63%	8.80%	3.62%

Does the media refer more to COKE or PRMB?

In the previous week, Coca-Cola Consolidated had 7 more articles in the media than Primo Brands. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Coca-Cola Consolidated and 1 mentions for Primo Brands. Coca-Cola Consolidated's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Primo Brands' score of 1.00 indicating that Coca-Cola Consolidated is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Coca-Cola Consolidated	Positive
Primo Brands	Positive

Which has more risk & volatility, COKE or PRMB?

Coca-Cola Consolidated has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Primo Brands has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Coca-Cola Consolidated and Primo Brands tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.