OCDO vs. GRG, SBRY, TATE, CWK, BVIC, PFD, FEVR, BME, HFG, and CCH
Should you be buying Ocado Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ocado Group include Greggs (GRG), J Sainsbury (SBRY), Tate & Lyle (TATE), Cranswick (CWK), Britvic (BVIC), Premier Foods (PFD), Fevertree Drinks (FEVR), B&M European Value Retail (BME), Hilton Food Group (HFG), and Coca-Cola HBC (CCH). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Greggs (LON:GRG) and Ocado Group (LON:OCDO) are both mid-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and valuation.
Greggs presently has a consensus price target of GBX 3,035, indicating a potential upside of 12.41%. Ocado Group has a consensus price target of GBX 515, indicating a potential upside of 45.85%. Given Greggs' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ocado Group is more favorable than Greggs.
Greggs has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ocado Group has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
64.8% of Greggs shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.4% of Ocado Group shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Greggs shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 30.2% of Ocado Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ocado Group had 1 more articles in the media than Greggs. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Ocado Group and 4 mentions for Greggs. Greggs' average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Ocado Group's score of -0.04 indicating that Ocado Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Greggs has a net margin of 7.87% compared to Greggs' net margin of -11.11%. Ocado Group's return on equity of 29.17% beat Greggs' return on equity.
Ocado Group received 149 more outperform votes than Greggs when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.13% of users gave Greggs an outperform vote while only 56.01% of users gave Ocado Group an outperform vote.
Greggs has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ocado Group. Ocado Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greggs, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Greggs beats Ocado Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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