The Vita Coco Company, Inc. vs National Beverage Corp., two Beverages stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where COCO and FIZZ diverge most: on revenue growth, COCO reads +23.0% and FIZZ reads -1.7%; on ev/ebitda, COCO reads 43.4 and FIZZ reads 10.1. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What COCO's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). What FIZZ's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | COCO | FIZZ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $73.16 | $31.04 |
| Market cap | $4.4B | $2.9B |
| Sector | Beverages | Beverages |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +33.1% | — |
| P/E | 53.0 | 15.8 |
| P/B | 12.56 | 4.57 |
| P/S | 6.72 | 2.46 |
| EV/EBITDA | 43.4 | 10.1 |
| Revenue growth | +23.0% | -1.7% |
| Gross margin | 40.0% | 34.7% |
| Operating margin | 18.7% | 16.9% |
| Net margin | 12.6% | 15.6% |
| Return on equity | 23.5% | 28.9% |
| Return on assets | 17.0% | 21.6% |
| Return on invested capital | 22.4% | 27.6% |
| FCF yield | 1.5% | 5.4% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 3.65 | 4.39 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 9.12 | 9.21 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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