WMK vs. FATBB, SECOY, SECO, NGVC, VLGEA, IMKTA, KR, CBD, SFM, and JFBR
Should you be buying Weis Markets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Weis Markets include FAT Brands (FATBB), Secoo (SECOY), Secoo (SECO), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), Village Super Market (VLGEA), Ingles Markets (IMKTA), Kroger (KR), Companhia Brasileira De Distribuicao (CBD), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), and Jeffs' Brands (JFBR). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Weis Markets (NYSE:WMK) and FAT Brands (NASDAQ:FATBB) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Weis Markets received 201 more outperform votes than FAT Brands when rated by MarketBeat users.
Weis Markets has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FAT Brands has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Weis Markets has a net margin of 2.21% compared to FAT Brands' net margin of -18.28%. Weis Markets' return on equity of 7.69% beat FAT Brands' return on equity.
In the previous week, Weis Markets and Weis Markets both had 2 articles in the media. FAT Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Weis Markets' score of 0.20 indicating that FAT Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Weis Markets pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. FAT Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. Weis Markets pays out 35.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FAT Brands pays out -9.1% 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. FAT Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Weis Markets has higher revenue and earnings than FAT Brands. FAT Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Weis Markets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Weis Markets beats FAT Brands on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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