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.
Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ:SFM) and Grocery Outlet (NASDAQ:GO) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
In the previous week, Grocery Outlet had 5 more articles in the media than Sprouts Farmers Market. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Grocery Outlet and 6 mentions for Sprouts Farmers Market. Grocery Outlet's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Sprouts Farmers Market's score of 0.33 indicating that Sprouts Farmers Market is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Sprouts Farmers Market has a net margin of 4.25% compared to Sprouts Farmers Market's net margin of 1.60%. Grocery Outlet's return on equity of 26.77% beat Sprouts Farmers Market's return on equity.
Sprouts Farmers Market has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grocery Outlet has a beta of 0.13, meaning that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.
99.9% of Grocery Outlet shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Sprouts Farmers Market 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.
Sprouts Farmers Market currently has a consensus target price of $57.25, suggesting a potential downside of 27.51%. Grocery Outlet has a consensus target price of $28.90, suggesting a potential upside of 31.42%. Given Sprouts Farmers Market's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, 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.
Summary
Sprouts Farmers Market beats Grocery Outlet on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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