Reviewing Commerzbank (OTCMKTS:CRZBY) and Glanbia (OTCMKTS:GLAPY)

Glanbia (OTCMKTS:GLAPY) and Commerzbank (OTCMKTS:CRZBY) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Glanbia and Commerzbank, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Glanbia	0	0	0	0	0.00
Commerzbank	0	1	0	0	2.00

Profitability

This table compares Glanbia and Commerzbank’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Glanbia	N/A	N/A	N/A
Commerzbank	8.55%	6.33%	0.39%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Glanbia and Commerzbank”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Glanbia	$5.43 billion	0.72	$344.40 million	N/A	N/A
Commerzbank	$22.00 billion	0.85	$2.41 billion	$1.91	8.30

Commerzbank has higher revenue and earnings than Glanbia.

Volatility & Risk

Glanbia has a beta of 0.23, indicating that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Commerzbank has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Glanbia pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Commerzbank pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Commerzbank pays out 13.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Commerzbank beats Glanbia on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Glanbia

Glanbia plc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a nutrition company worldwide. The company offers sports nutrition and lifestyle nutrition products in various formats, such as powders, ready-to-eat bars and snacking food, and ready-to-drink beverage. It also manufactures and sells cheese, dairy, and non-dairy nutritional and functional ingredients; and vitamin and mineral premixes products. In addition, the company engages in the financing; research and development; property and land dealing; holding and management of receivables; property leasing; business services; management solutions; weight management; flavor solutions; and bioactive solutions businesses. It offers its products under the Optimum Nutrition, BSN, Isopure, Nutramino, SlimFast, think!, Amazing Grass, Body & Fit, and LevlUp brands. The company sells its products through specialty retail, online, gym, and food, drug, mass, and club channels. Glanbia plc was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Kilkenny, Ireland.

About Commerzbank

Commerzbank AG provides banking and capital market products and services to private and small business customers, corporate, financial service providers, and institutional clients in Germany, rest of Europe, the Americas, Asia, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Private and Small-Business Customers, and Corporate Clients. The company offers saving, checking, business, and current accounts; term deposits; pension; credit and debit cards; payment solutions; overdraft services; various loans; and insurance products. It also provides trade securities; treasury management; corporate financing; real estate financing; financing advisory; merger and acquisition; foreign trade; trade financing; asset and risk management; and online banking, as well as wealth management services. Commerzbank AG was founded in 1870 and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.