IMKTA vs. VLGEA, NGVC, FWRG, WINA, RVLV, KRUS, CBRL, CARS, QRTEB, and SBH
Should you be buying Ingles Markets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ingles Markets include Village Super Market (VLGEA), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Winmark (WINA), Revolve Group (RVLV), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Cars.com (CARS), Qurate Retail (QRTEB), and Sally Beauty (SBH). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Village Super Market (NASDAQ:VLGEA) and Ingles Markets (NASDAQ:IMKTA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Village Super Market pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Ingles Markets pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Village Super Market pays out 28.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ingles Markets pays out 7.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Village Super Market has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingles Markets has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ingles Markets had 8 more articles in the media than Village Super Market. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Ingles Markets and 2 mentions for Village Super Market. Ingles Markets' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Village Super Market's score of 0.52 indicating that Village Super Market is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ingles Markets received 168 more outperform votes than Village Super Market when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.56% of users gave Ingles Markets an outperform vote while only 58.93% of users gave Village Super Market an outperform vote.
Ingles Markets has higher revenue and earnings than Village Super Market. Ingles Markets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Village Super Market, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ingles Markets has a net margin of 3.00% compared to Ingles Markets' net margin of 2.39%. Ingles Markets' return on equity of 12.53% beat Village Super Market's return on equity.
39.0% of Village Super Market shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Ingles Markets shares are held by institutional investors. 64.4% of Village Super Market shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.1% of Ingles Markets shares are held by 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.
Summary
Ingles Markets beats Village Super Market on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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