TSCO vs. SBRY, ABF, IMB, RKT, BNZL, CCH, BME, BATS, DGE, and OCDO
Should you be buying Tesco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tesco include J Sainsbury (SBRY), Associated British Foods (ABF), Imperial Brands (IMB), Reckitt Benckiser Group (RKT), Bunzl (BNZL), Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), B&M European Value Retail (BME), British American Tobacco (BATS), Diageo (DGE), and Ocado Group (OCDO). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Tesco (LON:TSCO) and J Sainsbury (LON:SBRY) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and risk.
Tesco pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. J Sainsbury pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Tesco pays out 5,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. J Sainsbury pays out 43,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Tesco has a net margin of 2.13% compared to J Sainsbury's net margin of 0.24%. Tesco's return on equity of 11.11% beat J Sainsbury's return on equity.
65.1% of Tesco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of J Sainsbury shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Tesco shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of J Sainsbury shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tesco received 291 more outperform votes than J Sainsbury when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.60% of users gave Tesco an outperform vote while only 51.51% of users gave J Sainsbury an outperform vote.
Tesco presently has a consensus price target of GBX 308.33, suggesting a potential upside of 6.73%. J Sainsbury has a consensus price target of GBX 281.67, suggesting a potential upside of 7.75%. Given J Sainsbury's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe J Sainsbury is more favorable than Tesco.
Tesco has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J Sainsbury has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Tesco has higher revenue and earnings than J Sainsbury. Tesco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than J Sainsbury, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, J Sainsbury had 12 more articles in the media than Tesco. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for J Sainsbury and 6 mentions for Tesco. J Sainsbury's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Tesco's score of 0.79 indicating that J Sainsbury is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Tesco beats J Sainsbury on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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