Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) and Its Peers Head-To-Head Review

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (NYSE:CCEP) is one of 16 publicly-traded companies in the “Bottled & canned soft drinks” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Coca-Cola Europacific Partners to related companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and earnings.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners	$18.25 billion	$1.59 billion	N/A
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Competitors	$7.03 billion	$388.30 million	2.11

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has higher revenue and earnings than its peers.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

29.5% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.7% of shares of all “Bottled & canned soft drinks” companies are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.9% of shares of all “Bottled & canned soft drinks” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners’ peers have a beta of 0.13, suggesting that their average stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. As a group, “Bottled & canned soft drinks” companies pay a dividend yield of 0.9% and pay out 12.9% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners	0	1	3	0	2.75
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Competitors	110	433	701	75	2.56

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners presently has a consensus price target of $65.96, indicating a potential upside of 7.42%. As a group, “Bottled & canned soft drinks” companies have a potential upside of 11.55%. Given Coca-Cola Europacific Partners’ peers higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and its peers’ 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
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Competitors	3.45%	22.73%	6.37%

About Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

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. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC was founded in 1904 and is based in Uxbridge, the United Kingdom.