GO vs. SFM, ASAI, TBBB, IMKTA, ARKO, NGVC, VLGEA, MSS, WMK, and ACI
Should you be buying Grocery Outlet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grocery Outlet include Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), Sendas Distribuidora (ASAI), BBB Foods (TBBB), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Arko (ARKO), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Maison Solutions (MSS), Weis Markets (WMK), and Albertsons Companies (ACI). These companies are all part of the "grocery stores" industry.
Grocery Outlet (NASDAQ:GO) and Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ:SFM) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and media sentiment.
Grocery Outlet presently has a consensus target price of $28.90, indicating a potential upside of 31.42%. Sprouts Farmers Market has a consensus target price of $57.25, indicating a potential downside of 27.51%. Given Grocery Outlet's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Grocery Outlet is more favorable than Sprouts Farmers Market.
Sprouts Farmers Market received 634 more outperform votes than Grocery Outlet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.90% of users gave Sprouts Farmers Market an outperform vote while only 32.00% of users gave Grocery Outlet an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Grocery Outlet had 4 more articles in the media than Sprouts Farmers Market. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Grocery Outlet and 6 mentions for Sprouts Farmers Market. Sprouts Farmers Market's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Grocery Outlet's score of 0.45 indicating that Sprouts Farmers Market is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Grocery Outlet has a beta of 0.13, meaning that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sprouts Farmers Market has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sprouts Farmers Market has a net margin of 4.25% compared to Grocery Outlet's net margin of 1.60%. Sprouts Farmers Market's return on equity of 26.77% beat Grocery Outlet's return on equity.
Sprouts Farmers Market has higher revenue and earnings than Grocery Outlet. Sprouts Farmers Market is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grocery Outlet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
99.9% of Grocery Outlet shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Grocery Outlet shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Sprouts Farmers Market shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Sprouts Farmers Market beats Grocery Outlet on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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