Critical Review: Coffee (NASDAQ:JVA) & Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (NASDAQ:CCEP)

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (NASDAQ:CCEPGet Free Report) and Coffee (NASDAQ:JVAGet Free Report) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

31.4% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of Coffee shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and Coffee, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners 1 3 6 1 2.64
Coffee 0 0 0 0 0.00

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners presently has a consensus target price of $88.50, suggesting a potential downside of 4.40%. Given Coca-Cola Europacific Partners’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is more favorable than Coffee.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and Coffee”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Gross Revenue Price/Sales Ratio Net Income Earnings Per Share Price/Earnings Ratio
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners $22.12 billion 1.93 $1.53 billion $4.86 19.05
Coffee $78.56 million 0.32 $2.22 million $0.64 6.88

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Coffee. Coffee is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coffee has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and Coffee’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners N/A N/A N/A
Coffee 4.35% 13.87% 10.11%

Summary

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners beats Coffee on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

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Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC, together with its subsidiaries, produces, distributes, and sells a range of non-alcoholic ready to drink beverages. It offers flavours, mixers, and energy drinks; soft drinks, waters, enhanced water, and isotonic drinks; and ready-to-drink tea and coffee, juices, and other drinks. The company provides its products under the Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Fanta, Sprite, Monster Energy, Coca-Cola Energy, Relentless, nalu, URGE, BURN, Kuli, REIGN, POWERADE, Appletiser, Schweppes, FINLEY, mezzo mix, Royal Bliss, Lift, Vio SCHORLE, Coca-Cola Signature Mixers, NORDIC MIST, smartwater, Chaudfontaine, AQUARIUS, VILAS del Turbon, BONAQUA, Apollinaris, Krystal, Honest, Costa Coffee, Fuzetea, CHAQWA, NESTEA, Capri-Sun, Oasis, Minute Maid, MER, and Tropico brands. In addition, it engages in the bottling and other operations. The company was formerly known as Coca-Cola European Partners plc and changed its name to Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC in May 2021. The company was founded in 1904 and is based in Uxbridge, the United Kingdom.

About Coffee

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Coffee Holding Co., Inc. engages in manufacturing, roasting, packaging, marketing, and distributing roasted and blended coffees in the United States, Australia, Canada, England, and China. It offers wholesale green coffee products, including unroasted raw beans that are sold to large, medium, and small roasters, as well as coffee shop operators; and roasts, blends, packages, and sells coffee under private labels in cans, brick packages, and instants of various sizes. The company also roasts and blends company label branded coffee to supermarkets, wholesalers, and individually owned stores; and sells tabletop coffee roasting equipment, instant coffees, and tea products for its customers. Its coffee brands include Cafe Caribe, Don Manuel, S&W, Cafe Supremo, Via Roma, Premier Roasters, and Harmony Bay. The company was formerly known as Transpacific International Group Corp and changed its name to Coffee Holding Co., Inc. in April 1998. Coffee Holding Co., Inc. was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Staten Island, New York.

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