ARKO vs. GO, IMKTA, NGVC, VLGEA, MSS, WMK, KR, ACI, SFM, and ASAI
Should you be buying Arko stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arko include Grocery Outlet (GO), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Maison Solutions (MSS), Weis Markets (WMK), Kroger (KR), Albertsons Companies (ACI), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), and Sendas Distribuidora (ASAI). These companies are all part of the "grocery stores" industry.
Arko (NASDAQ:ARKO) and Grocery Outlet (NASDAQ:GO) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Arko has a beta of 0.36, meaning that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grocery Outlet has a beta of 0.13, meaning that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.
78.3% of Arko shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Grocery Outlet shares are held by institutional investors. 21.6% of Arko shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Grocery Outlet shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Arko currently has a consensus target price of $7.33, suggesting a potential upside of 22.22%. Grocery Outlet has a consensus target price of $28.90, suggesting a potential upside of 31.42%. Given Grocery Outlet's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Grocery Outlet is more favorable than Arko.
Grocery Outlet has a net margin of 1.60% compared to Arko's net margin of 0.39%. Arko's return on equity of 13.20% beat Grocery Outlet's return on equity.
Grocery Outlet received 10 more outperform votes than Arko when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 38.89% of users gave Arko an outperform vote while only 32.00% of users gave Grocery Outlet an outperform vote.
Grocery Outlet has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Arko. Arko is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grocery Outlet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Grocery Outlet had 4 more articles in the media than Arko. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Grocery Outlet and 5 mentions for Arko. Grocery Outlet's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Arko's score of 0.36 indicating that Grocery Outlet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Grocery Outlet beats Arko on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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