SCI vs. COTY, PPC, ELF, COKE, ARMK, ACI, SJM, TAP, LW, and NYT
Should you be buying Service Co. International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Service Co. International include Coty (COTY), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Aramark (ARMK), Albertsons Companies (ACI), J. M. Smucker (SJM), Molson Coors Beverage (TAP), Lamb Weston (LW), and New York Times (NYT). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Coty (NYSE:COTY) and Service Co. International (NYSE:SCI) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Coty has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Service Co. International has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Coty had 2 more articles in the media than Service Co. International. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Coty and 5 mentions for Service Co. International. Coty's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Service Co. International's score of 0.12 indicating that Service Co. International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
42.4% of Coty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Service Co. International shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of Coty shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Service Co. International shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Coty currently has a consensus target price of $13.21, suggesting a potential upside of 23.93%. Service Co. International has a consensus target price of $76.20, suggesting a potential upside of 7.70%. Given Service Co. International's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Coty is more favorable than Service Co. International.
Coty received 197 more outperform votes than Service Co. International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.10% of users gave Service Co. International an outperform vote while only 54.98% of users gave Coty an outperform vote.
Service Co. International has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Coty. Service Co. International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Service Co. International has a net margin of 12.73% compared to Service Co. International's net margin of 3.59%. Coty's return on equity of 32.23% beat Service Co. International's return on equity.
Summary
Service Co. International beats Coty on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SCI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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