TSCO vs. MRW, SBRY, OCDO, DFIB, CBOX, MCLS, CRAW, DGE, BATS, and RKT
Should you be buying Tesco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tesco include Wm Morrison Supermarkets (MRW), J Sainsbury (SBRY), Ocado Group (OCDO), DFI Retail Group (DFIB), Cake Box (CBOX), McColl's Retail Group (MCLS), Crawshaw Group (CRAW), Diageo (DGE), British American Tobacco (BATS), and Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT).
Wm Morrison Supermarkets (LON:MRW) and Tesco (LON:TSCO) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Tesco has a consensus target price of GBX 313.33, indicating a potential upside of 0.75%. Given Wm Morrison Supermarkets' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Tesco is more favorable than Wm Morrison Supermarkets.
In the previous week, Tesco had 1 more articles in the media than Wm Morrison Supermarkets. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Tesco and 0 mentions for Wm Morrison Supermarkets. Wm Morrison Supermarkets' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Tesco's score of 0.00 indicating that Tesco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tesco has higher revenue and earnings than Wm Morrison Supermarkets. Wm Morrison Supermarkets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tesco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tesco has a net margin of 1.74% compared to Tesco's net margin of 0.00%. Wm Morrison Supermarkets' return on equity of 14.77% beat Tesco's return on equity.
63.4% of Tesco shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Tesco shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Tesco received 631 more outperform votes than Wm Morrison Supermarkets when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.59% of users gave Tesco an outperform vote while only 43.23% of users gave Wm Morrison Supermarkets an outperform vote.
Wm Morrison Supermarkets pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Tesco pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Wm Morrison Supermarkets pays out -6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
Summary
Tesco beats Wm Morrison Supermarkets on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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