SBRY vs. TSCO, MRW, OCDO, DFIB, CBOX, MCLS, CRAW, ABF, IMB, and BNZL
Should you be buying J Sainsbury stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J Sainsbury include Tesco (TSCO), Wm Morrison Supermarkets (MRW), Ocado Group (OCDO), DFI Retail Group (DFIB), Cake Box (CBOX), McColl's Retail Group (MCLS), Crawshaw Group (CRAW), Associated British Foods (ABF), Imperial Brands (IMB), and Bunzl (BNZL).
Tesco (LON:TSCO) and J Sainsbury (LON:SBRY) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, risk and community ranking.
Tesco has a net margin of 1.74% compared to Tesco's net margin of 0.42%. J Sainsbury's return on equity of 14.77% beat Tesco's return on equity.
Tesco presently has a consensus price target of GBX 313.33, indicating a potential upside of 0.75%. J Sainsbury has a consensus price target of GBX 281, indicating a potential upside of 1.37%. Given Tesco's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe J Sainsbury is more favorable than Tesco.
Tesco has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J Sainsbury has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Tesco received 292 more outperform votes than J Sainsbury when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.59% of users gave Tesco an outperform vote while only 51.48% of users gave J Sainsbury an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Tesco and Tesco both had 1 articles in the media. Tesco's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat J Sainsbury's score of 0.59 indicating that J Sainsbury is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
63.4% of Tesco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.4% of J Sainsbury shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Tesco shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of J Sainsbury shares are owned by company 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.
Tesco has higher revenue and earnings than J Sainsbury. Tesco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J Sainsbury, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tesco pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. J Sainsbury pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Tesco pays out 4,800.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. J Sainsbury pays out 21,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Tesco beats J Sainsbury on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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