Reviewing Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) and Quanta (OTCMKTS:QNTA)

Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) and Quanta (OTCMKTS:QNTA) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

86.6% of Church & Dwight shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Church & Dwight shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Church & Dwight and Quanta”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Church & Dwight	$6.20 billion	3.76	$736.80 million	$3.11	31.63
Quanta	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Church & Dwight has higher revenue and earnings than Quanta.

Profitability

This table compares Church & Dwight and Quanta’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Church & Dwight	11.96%	20.10%	9.31%
Quanta	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Church & Dwight and Quanta, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Church & Dwight	1	8	9	0	2.44
Quanta	0	0	0	0	0.00

Church & Dwight presently has a consensus price target of $104.41, suggesting a potential upside of 6.13%. Given Church & Dwight’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Church & Dwight is more favorable than Quanta.

Summary

Church & Dwight beats Quanta on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Church & Dwight

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of household, personal care, and specialty products. It operates through the following segments: Consumer Domestic, Consumer International, Specialty Products Division (SPD), and Corporate. The Consumer Domestic segment offers household products, such as laundry detergents, fabric softener sheets, cat litter, household cleaning products, and personal care products including antiperspirants, oral care products, depilatories, reproductive health products, oral analgesics, nasal saline moisturizers, and dietary supplements. The Consumer International segment is involved in the personal care, household and over-the-counter products in international subsidiary markets, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, China, and the United Kingdom. The SPD segment consists of sales to businesses and participates in three product areas namely, animal nutrition, specialty chemicals, and commercial and professional. The Corporate segment includes equity in earnings of affiliates. The company was founded by Dwight John and Austin Church in 1846 and is headquartered in Ewing, NJ.

About Quanta

Quanta, Inc. operates as an applied science company. It engages in the provision of a technology platform which focuses on increasing energy levels in plant matter to increase performance within the human body. The company was founded by Eric Allen Rice on April 28, 2016 and is headquartered in Burbank, CA.