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

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

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Coffee and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

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

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.

Profitability

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

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

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

Risk and Volatility

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Coffee and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, as provided by MarketBeat.

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

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

Summary

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

About Coffee

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.

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. The company was founded in 1904 and is based in Uxbridge, the United Kingdom.