Contrasting Coca Cola Femsa (NYSE:KOF) & Home Bistro (OTCMKTS:HBISD)

Home Bistro (OTCMKTS:HBISD) and Coca Cola Femsa (NYSE:KOF) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Home Bistro and Coca Cola Femsa, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Home Bistro	0	0	0	0	0.00
Coca Cola Femsa	0	5	4	0	2.44

Coca Cola Femsa has a consensus price target of $118.83, indicating a potential upside of 5.43%. Given Coca Cola Femsa’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Coca Cola Femsa is more favorable than Home Bistro.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Home Bistro and Coca Cola Femsa”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Home Bistro	$1.64 million	0.00	-$12.80 million	($17.50)	-0.00
Coca Cola Femsa	$15.22 billion	12.45	$1.32 billion	$6.34	17.78

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

Profitability

This table compares Home Bistro and Coca Cola Femsa’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Home Bistro	N/A	N/A	N/A
Coca Cola Femsa	8.05%	15.83%	7.32%

Risk & Volatility

Home Bistro has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca Cola Femsa has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Coca Cola Femsa beats Home Bistro on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Home Bistro

Home Bistro, Inc. engages in the food preparation and home-delivery business. It provides prepackaged and prepared meals and also offers planning, delivery, and preparation services. The firm products are customized meal solutions and delivered fresh-frozen directly to the home. The company was founded on December 17, 2009 and is headquartered in Miami Beach, FL.

About Coca Cola Femsa

Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A.B. de C.V., a franchise bottler, produces, markets, sells, and distributes Coca-Cola trademark beverages in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. The company offers sparkling beverages, including colas and flavored sparkling beverages; waters; other non-carbonated beverages comprising juice drinks, coffee, teas, milk, value-added dairy products, sports and energy drinks, and plant-based drinks; and alcoholic beverages, such as hard seltzer under the Topo Chico brand name. It also distributes and sells Heineken, Estrella Galicia, Therezópolis, and Campari beer products, as well as Perfetti confectionary and chewing gum in its Brazilian territories; and Monster products. The company sells its products to distributors, retail outlets, wholesale supermarkets, discount and convenience stores, retailers, points-of-sale outlets, restaurants, bars, stadiums, auditoriums, theaters, and home deliveries. Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A.B. de C.V. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico.