Westrock Coffee (NASDAQ:WEST – Get Free Report) and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (NASDAQ:CCEP – Get Free Report) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Profitability
This table compares Westrock Coffee and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Westrock Coffee | -9.28% | -64.79% | -4.31% |
| Coca-Cola Europacific Partners | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
45.1% of Westrock Coffee shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.4% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 27.7% of Westrock Coffee shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners 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.
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Westrock Coffee | $850.73 million | 0.53 | -$80.30 million | ($0.94) | -5.06 |
| Coca-Cola Europacific Partners | $22.12 billion | 1.85 | $1.53 billion | $4.86 | 18.27 |
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Westrock Coffee. Westrock 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.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Westrock Coffee and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Westrock Coffee | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2.50 |
| Coca-Cola Europacific Partners | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2.44 |
Westrock Coffee currently has a consensus price target of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 110.08%. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has a consensus price target of $92.40, indicating a potential upside of 4.08%. Given Westrock Coffee’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Westrock Coffee is more favorable than Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.
Risk and Volatility
Westrock Coffee has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners beats Westrock Coffee on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Westrock Coffee
Westrock Coffee Company, LLC operates as an integrated coffee, tea, flavors, extracts, and ingredients solutions provider in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Beverage Solutions, and Sustainable Sourcing & Traceability (SS&T). The Beverage Solutions segment provides various packaging, including branded and private label coffee in bags, fractional packs, and single serve cups, as well as extract solutions for applications in cold brew and ready-to-drink offerings. The SS&T segment engages in delivery and settlement of forward sales contracts for green coffee. The company offers coffee sourcing, supply chain management, product development, roasting, packaging, and distribution services to the retail, food service and restaurant, convenience store and travel center, non-commercial account, CPG, and hospitality industries. Westrock Coffee Company, LLC was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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.
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